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 a common roofline. The roofline incorporates steps to accommodate the rising ground between the pairs. The houses are built of roughly dressed ironstone with visible patches of smaller stones, with large stones framing each opening and massive single lintels above. The stacks have some brickwork. Originally covered with Welsh slate, the roofs are now mostly replaced with concrete tiles, with blue brick ridge tiles. The original windows were 8/8 pane sashes, with a few surviving; later alterations include some horned sashes. Most windows now have late 20th-century PVC-U glazing, but the original openings and deep sills remain unaltered. The rear elevations originally had similar glazing, as shown on an Ordnance Survey map of 1875, and were without rear extensions, though these are now common. Few dividing fences exist between properties; a separate stone and slate WC and coal shed was originally provided at the end of each double plot, and many of these survive in adapted form. A later house, varying from the standard pattern, is located at the end of each terrace, except for the southeastern end.