1-26 Park Terrace (consec)

One of a double row of terraced housing facing each other across pavements, road, and a narrow green. The houses were built in pairs, each with a door to the side, one window above, and one to the ground floor, sharing a central stack and roofline. The roofline steps accommodate the rising ground between the pairs. The houses are built of snecked, roughly dressed ironstone, with each opening bordered by large stones and massive single lintels. Brick is used on the stacks. The original roofs were Welsh slate but are now mostly replaced with concrete tiles, with blue brick ridge tiles. Windows were originally 8/8 pane sashes, of which a few remain; later adaptations include some horned sashes. Most glazing is now late 20th-century PVC-U, but the original openings and deep sills remain unaltered. The rear elevations initially had similar glazing, as shown on an Ordnance Survey map of 1875, and were without rear outshuts, though these are now common. There are few dividing fences between the properties, but each double plot originally had a separate stone and slate WC and coal shed, many of which remain in altered form. At each terrace end, except for the southeast end, is a later house that varies from the standard pattern.