76 Vale Street, inc forecourt walls

Windsor Terrace (Nos 66-76 Vale Street)

This terrace of six brick-built houses features glazed brick facades with decorative banding in yellow and blue bricks to the upper four units. The continuous slate roof incorporates end and shared chimneys, which are staged with banding to the upper four houses and oversailing and laced courses to Nos 74-76 (the chimneys to Nos 68 and 70 have been reduced slightly). Oversailing and corbelled eaves run across all units except the lower pair, which have additional banding. The ground floor of each house is raised slightly above a basement floor and accessed via a flight of low parapeted steps.

The upper four houses (Nos 66-76) are symmetrically arranged, with Nos 66 and 68 reflected by Nos 70 and 72. Each unit comprises two bays with arched entrances; those to the central pair (Nos 68 and 70) are correspondingly paired. The central units feature large segmentally-arched tripartite windows with expressed keys and imposts to the arches, while the outer two units have single-storey canted bay windows with flat, parapeted roofs. Original recessed doors retain tall glazed upper panels and plain-glazed segmental overlights, with plain Victorian sashes throughout. The second floor has two segmentally-arched windows to each of the central pair, and paired and single arched windows to the outer units, with banding at sill and springing level. Each unit contains a large glazed dormer to the attic floor with hipped, slated roofs featuring oversailing, corbelled eaves and finials; the dormers have arched lights paired to the front and 4-light to the sides.

The lower pair (Nos 74 and 76) have similar entrances and two-storey canted bays positioned to the right and left respectively. These bays feature hipped slate roofs and oversailing, corbelled eaves, with stone sillcourses returned onto the main facade as decorative terracotta banding. Single and paired first-floor sashes serve the left and right units respectively. No. 74 has an additional ground-floor entrance immediately to the right of the main entrance, serving as a through-passage door providing access to the rear. The second floor has paired small rectangular windows and paired arched windows to each unit, the latter positioned above the bays. Large gables surmount these windows, with deep verges, cusped and pierced bargeboards and geometric pendant-finials; decorative terracotta rosettes appear in the gable apexes. Plain sashes and projecting stone sills run throughout.

Each house has low brick forecourt walls with sandstone copings; all units save No. 74 have simple surmounting railings.