6 The Croft

Terraced house now part of Fourcroft Hotel, first house of a matching row of 4, Nos 6-9. Each house has painted stucco street elevation of basement, 3 storeys and C20 attic. Ground floors channelled. Steps up to doors in round-headed recesses with fluted pilasters and moulded capitals continued into the reveals as impost bands. Continuous iron-railed balconies with anthemion pattern on 1st floor, on cast iron brackets. Door and window on ground floor not aligned. Iron area railings with steps down to basement with window and door beneath bridge to front door. Area railings have uprights with stud-headed finials. Railings of attractive wrought-iron scroll pattern flank steps to doorways. Large sash windows, originally 16-pane to 2nd floor and full-length 24-pane to balcony, 16-pane to ground floor, many altered but being renewed to original pattern. No 6 has small-paned sashes renewed to original pattern since 1977. Four terrazzo-clad steps up to doorway with radiating-bar fanlight with the remains of finer work. Right hand gated opening to concrete steps down to aligned 16-pane sash window and C20 door beneath arched bridge.