53 Clwyd Street

This is a gable-fronted house with a three-unit plan, rebuilt and possibly extended in the 19th century. The prominent gable facing the street is a 19th-century addition, with a steeper roofline than the earlier part of the building to the rear. The exterior is rendered and has slate roofs, with a brick lateral stack in the original rear range. The front block features 19th-century timber details, including a doorway to the left with a boarded, studded, and ribbed door set within a Tudor-arched head. To the right of the door is a three-light leaded window. The jettied upper storey has a long four-light mullioned and leaded window at the centre, flanked by timber framing with quatrefoil panels beneath the window, and chevrons either side of a king-post in the gable. Deep eaves are trimmed with barge-boards, and an apex finial tops the gable. Timber-framed detailing continues in the upper storey of the western return elevation, where modern windows are positioned on either side of the lateral chimney stack. The upper eastern return elevation incorporates a 21st-century fixed small-pane window in the 19th-century front block. Beyond this, the wall of the original range is slightly battered and contains a 20th-century doorway, possibly in its original position, flanked by small uPVC windows. A timber eight-pane window and a cellar doorway are located at the far left. A brick outbuilding stands at the rear.

The entrance on the east side opens into a large living room to the right, with a kitchen to the left, all within the original building. The living room features a ceiling with a medium-chamfered spine-beam and a cross-angle fireplace in the southwest corner that is no longer functional. A quarter-turn staircase is positioned immediately to the right of the entrance, and is likely a later addition. The original front wall may have aligned with the adjacent building (number 51); a beam is supported by a large stone corbel on the east side along this alignment, with a later inserted timber post slightly set back from the corbel. The front bay includes a small fireplace on the west side, blocked up externally. The kitchen has two small, boxed-in spine-beams, and originally had a cross-angle fireplace to the northwest corner, which is now infilled. The outbuilding to the left is in separate ownership. The upper storey of the outbuilding has not been inspected, but a previous survey recorded a closed tie-beam truss to the north, with the truss to the south being missing.