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 one side, one window above, and one to the ground floor. They share a central stack and roofline, with stepped details in the roofline to accommodate the rising ground between the pairs. The houses are constructed of roughly dressed ironstone, with openings bordered by large stones and massive single lintels, and brick detailing to the stacks. Originally covered with Welsh slate roofs, most are now tiled with concrete tiles, finished with blue brick ridge tiles. The windows were originally 8/8 pane sashes, and some remain; later alterations include horned sashes, although most glazing is now late 20th-century PVC-U. The original window openings and deep sills remain unaltered. The rear elevations originally had similar glazing and, according to an Ordnance Survey map from 1875, did not have rear extensions, although these are now common. Few dividing fences exist between properties, but each double plot had a separate stone and slate WC and coal shed at the end, many of which remain in adapted form. At each terrace end, except the southeast end, is a later house that differs from the standard pattern.