51 Clwyd Street

Three-window house, of one-and-a-half storeys, the L-hand unit of a different build, with higher eaves and lower ridge. The front is of dressed coursed grey stone on a plinth under a slate roof; rendered and lined stack to R of centre, and further stack to L, probably shared with 49. Ground floor openings have large stone lintels, upper storey windows are under gabled half-dormers with light timber-framing. Entrance to L of centre with small-pane glazed wooden door. Flanking 3-light mullioned and transomed uPVC windows, replacing wooden casements in a similar style. Upper storey windows as below, 3-light to centre, and 2-light to outer units. Rectangular vehicular through-passage to far R, leading to a long rear wing. The rear wing is of one-and-a-half storeys, rendered and modernised, with uPVC windows and raked dormers. It was built in a number of phases, and includes a flat and garages with double boarded doors to the R end.

Inside the entrance is a small stair-hall with T-shaped staircase to rear, with slender turned balusters. Behind the staircase is an inserted partition, the 1st floor hall said to be beyond. The living room is to the R of the stair-hall and contains a continuous spine-beam with distinctive double hollow mouldings, supported on moulded capitals; this beam continues from the stair-hall. The living room has a large fireplace to R end with yoke-shaped timber lintel. Timber-framing has been found beneath the plaster, including in the rear R room. The room to the L of the stair-hall, part of the same range as 47-49, has a C17 ceiling with medium-chamfered cross- and spine-beams. To the L of the staircase is the entrance to a cellar, a large deep-chamfered post slightly cut-away for the cellar stairs, and with evidence for an earlier doorway. The kitchen at the N end of the rear wing has a spine-beam, boxed-in as it was damaged during use as a butchers. Upper storey not seen, but said to retain windbraces of open roof, now ceiled in attic.