23 Beacon's Hill

Nos. 11-37 Beacon's Hill form a long, staggered terrace of cottages built in the second half of the 19th century, designed to follow the curve of the descending hill. The terrace comprises 13 two-storey cottages, mostly with a single window, arranged in pairs that mirror each other, with the exception of the end units and numbers 25 and 27. Number 11 has an additional window on the ground floor, and exhibits earlier brickwork in the lower part of its chimney, suggesting that it may have originated in the second quarter or mid-19th century. The cottages are built of rendered brick and have shared brick stacks; the roofs are slate with tiled ridges. The stacks at numbers 13 and 15, and numbers 21-5, are rendered. The roof is continuous until number 15, stepping down slightly in sections of mostly two cottages as the terrace follows the hill’s slope. The original doors were late Victorian, four-panel in style, and some, at numbers 33 and 35, were originally part-glazed. Modern replacement doors are now present at numbers 11, 17, 23, 27, 29, 31, and 37. Number 29 also features an additional entrance with a boarded door on the left-hand side. The windows are plain, recessed sashes with four panes, and have projecting stone sills. This terrace is part of a wider group of fourteen buildings.