26 North Parade

This is a group of late Georgian terraced buildings, originally three and four storeys high with attics. The frontages are finished with different materials: No. 20 has a scribed render, while Nos. 22 to 26 are of coursed rubble. The number of windows varies, with Nos. 20 to 24 each having two windows and No. 26 having three.

No. 20 exhibits channelled details to its ground floor and end pilaster strips, along with a cill band and plinth. No. 22 includes brick voussoirs and a bay window. The buildings are roofed with slate, with bracketed eaves which are higher on No. 20 and slightly lower on No. 26. Rubble chimney stacks are present. Pitched roof dormers are visible on Nos. 20, 24, and 26; the dormer on No. 20 is broad and features paired sash windows. Nos. 24 and 26 have bargeboards and finials, with more elaborate detailing on No. 25. Nos. 20 and 22 both have three-storey splayed bay windows, with dentil cornices and pediments to the first and ground floors of No. 20, which also has lugged architraves to the right. Sash windows are found on Nos. 20 and 22, lacking glazing bars, while Nos. 24 and 26 have small-pane sashes, including a tripartite window on No. 24.

All the buildings retain their original fine doorcases; No. 20 features a bowed Doric doorcase with a wide cornice and entablature frieze on fluted columns, while Nos. 22 to 26 have Ionic doorcases with entablature friezes and fluted columns to No. 26. The reveals are panelled, and the doors are panelled and double except for those at No. 24, which are half-glazed. Traceried fanlights are present on Nos. 20, 24 and 26.

Fine interiors have been retained, particularly in Nos. 24 and 26. No. 24 features paired Doric columns supporting the arch to the oval stairwell. No. 26 has a panelled stairwell arch, reached by an entrance hall with a plaster ornament to the ceiling depicting a fleur de lys and foliage trail, with similar detail to the underside of the staircase. Both buildings retain reeded doorcases and have been converted for use as a surgery.