3 Lloyds Crescent

1-8 Lloyds Crescent

An informal crescent of 8 houses comprising outer blocks of 3 dwellings, flanking a central pair. Arts and Crafts style, of picturesque symmetry, and traditional neo-vernacular materials and detail including roughcast walls, steep slate roofs with overhanging eaves and brick stacks with recessed panels. The original small-paned casement windows have been replaced with small-paned uPVC windows, but the original boarded doors with small-paned glazed upper panels survive.

Outer blocks (nos 1-3 and 6-8) are symmetrically composed, the overall composition over-riding expression of the individual dwellings; asymmetrical outer gables, their inner roof slopes swept down and wrapped round to incorporated hipped canopy porches, supported on curved struts: small window lighting entrance in short return of these advanced gables. Long 3-light window in lower storey of each gable, with shorter window above, and aligned windows in the outer bays of the 5-window range between the gables. The central section of this range comprises a single dwelling in each block (nos 2 and 7), and is tightly symmetrical: doorway beneath hipped canopy porch (with single side-light to left of doorway). Flanking 3-light windows on each floor, and small 2-light casement over entrance, set beneath gablet with monogram 'M' and dates 1933 and 1934 (to nos 7 and 2 respectively).

Nos 4 and 5 comprise the central block of the group. Tightly symmetrical, based again on outer gables, here flanking a 2-window range. Each gable has doorway offset to the inner side, with hipped canopy porch as before, and narrow side-light to one side only. Long 3-light window to ground floor, with shorter 3-light window above, and a narrow window over the entrance. Central 2-window range has similar long ground floor windows, and shorter 3-light windows beneath raking dormers above.