27-52 Park Terrace (consec)

27-52 Park Terrace comprises a row of terraced houses facing each other across pavements, a road, and a narrow green. The houses were built in pairs in the 18th century, with a door to the side, one window above, and one to the ground floor, sharing a central stack and roofline. The roofline steps upwards to accommodate the sloping ground between the pairs. The houses are built of roughly dressed ironstone with snecked details, with large stones framing each opening and massive single lintels, some brick to the stacks. Originally, the roofs were covered in Welsh slate, though most have been replaced with concrete tiles, with blue brick ridge tiles. The original windows were 8/8 pane sashes, a few of which remain. Later alterations include horned sashes, and most windows now feature late 20th-century PVC-U glazing, though original openings and deep sills remain unaltered. The rear elevations originally had similar glazing and, according to an Ordnance Survey map of 1875, featured no rear extensions, which are now common. Few dividing fences exist between the properties. Each double plot originally had a separate stone and slate WC (water closet) and coal shed, many of which survive in altered condition. An end-of-terrace house, set in a larger plot with no street entrance, was added later and is shown on the 1875 Ordnance Survey map.