70 Vale Street, incl forecourt walls and railings

Nos 66-76 Vale Street (Windsor Terrace)

This terrace of six brick-built houses features glazed brick facades, with the upper four units displaying additional decorative banding in yellow and blue bricks. All buildings have continuous slate roofs with end and shared chimneys—the latter staged—and banding applied to the upper four houses. Nos 74-76 show oversailing and laced courses. The chimneys to nos 68 and 70 have been reduced slightly. Oversailing and corbelled eaves run throughout, with additional banding to all units except the lower pair. Ground floors are raised slightly above basement levels and accessed via flights of low parapeted steps.

The upper four units (nos 66, 68, 70, and 72) are arranged with symmetrical reflection: nos 66 and 68 are mirrored by nos 70 and 72. Each is two bays wide with arched entrances, those to the central two paired correspondingly. The central units feature large segmentally-arched, tripartite windows with expressed keys and imposts to the arches. The outer two units have single-storey canted bay windows with flat, parapeted roofs. Original recessed doors feature tall glazed upper panels and plain-glazed segmental overlights. Plain Victorian sashes appear throughout.

On the second floor, each of the central pair (nos 68 and 70) has two segmentally-arched windows, while the outer units (nos 66 and 72) have paired and single arched windows respectively; banding appears at sill and springing level. Each unit has a large glazed dormer to the attic floor with hipped, slated roofs displaying oversailing, corbelled eaves and finials. Arched lights are paired to the front and 4-light to the sides.

The lower pair (nos 74 and 76) have similar entrances and 2-storey canted bays—to the right of no. 76 and to the left of no. 74. These bays feature hipped slate roofs and oversailing, corbelled eaves, with stone sillcourses returned onto the main facade as decorative terracotta banding. No. 76 has single first-floor sashes on the left; no. 74 has paired sashes on the right and includes an additional ground-floor entrance immediately to the right of the main entrance, serving as a through-passage door to the rear.

The second floor of both lower units has paired small rectangular windows and paired arched windows above the bays. Large gables surmount these arched windows, featuring deep verges and cusped and pierced bargeboards with geometric pendant-finials; decorative terracotta rosettes ornament the gable apexes. Plain sashes and projecting stone sills appear throughout.

Each house has low brick forecourt walls with sandstone copings; all except no. 74 are surmounted by simple railings.