8 The Croft

8 The Croft is a third house within a matching row of four terraced houses, numbered 6 to 9. The house dates from the 20th century and has a painted stucco front elevation, incorporating a basement, three storeys, and a 20th-century attic. The ground floor has channelled detailing. Steps lead up to the front doors, which are set within round-headed recesses featuring fluted pilasters and moulded capitals, with the capitals extending into the reveals as impost bands. Continuous iron railings with an anthemion pattern run along the first floor, supported by cast iron brackets. The ground floor door and window are not aligned. Iron area railings, with steps leading down to the basement where there is a window and door beneath a bridge to the front door, are present. The area railings feature uprights with stud-headed finials, and attractive wrought-iron scroll patterns flank the steps leading to the doorways. The house originally featured large sash windows with 16 panes to the second floor, and full-length 24-pane sashes to the balcony level, and 16 panes to the ground floor, though many have been altered and are being renewed to their original pattern. Number 8 differs from the other houses in the row by having 16-pane sashes only to the top floor, with elsewhere the windows featuring horizontal bars instead. Concrete steps lead to the doorway and down to the basement.