74 Vale Street, inc forecourt walls and railings

Windsor Terrace, Nos 66-76 Vale Street

This terrace of six houses is built of brick with glazed brick facades. The upper four houses (nos 66, 68, 70 and 72) feature decorative banding in yellow and blue bricks. All roofs are continuous slate with end and shared chimneys that are staged. The upper four houses have banding to their chimneys, whilst nos 74-76 have oversailing and laced courses; the chimneys to nos 68 and 70 have been reduced slightly. Oversailing and corbelled eaves run across the terrace, with additional banding to all except the lower pair. The ground floor of each house is raised slightly above basement level and accessed by a flight of low parapeted steps.

The upper four houses are arranged with symmetrical pairs: nos 66 and 68 are reflected by nos 70 and 72. Each unit has two bays with arched entrances; the central pair (nos 68 and 70) have corresponding paired entrances. These central units feature large segmentally-arched, tripartite windows with expressed keys and imposts to the arches. The outer two units (nos 66 and 72) have single-storey canted bay windows with flat, parapeted roofs. Recessed original doors with tall glazed upper panels and plain-glazed segmental overlights are present throughout, with plain Victorian sashes. The second floor has two segmentally-arched windows to each central pair, and paired and single arched windows to the outer units, with banding at sill and springing level. Each unit has a large glazed dormer to the attic floor with hipped, slated roofs, oversailing corbelled eaves and finials; arched lights are paired to the front and four-light to the sides.

The lower pair (nos 74 and 76) have entrances of the same type, with two-storey canted bays to the right and left respectively. These bays have hipped slate roofs, oversailing corbelled eases, and stone sillcourses returned onto the main facade as decorative terracotta banding. The first floor has single sashes to no 76 and paired sashes to no 74, which additionally has a ground-floor entrance immediately to the right of the main entrance serving as a through-passage to the rear. The second floor has paired small rectangular windows and paired arched windows to each, the latter above the bays. Large gables surmount these, featuring deep verges and cusped and pierced bargeboards with geometric pendant-finials; decorative terracotta rosettes sit in the gable apexes. Plain sashes and projecting stone sills are throughout.

Each house has a low brick forecourt wall with sandstone coping. All except no 74 are surmounted by simple railings.