22 Garden Suburbs, Circus

No. 22-28 Garden Suburb, Circus is a group of four two-storey houses with attics, built in the Arts and Crafts style. The buildings have a butterfly-plan layout and feature rubble elevations with quoins, tiled roofs that have swept overhanging eaves, and tall chimney stacks, including three on the main front pitch. The original windows are leaded casements. The symmetrical main front is highlighted by distinctive twinned gables, which may have been influenced by the architect Philip Webb. These gables extend low on either side and are jettied out, with boarding above 4-light windows. Although the gables have modern boarding and replacement glazing, as well as modern ground floor bow windows, the overall Arts and Crafts character remains largely intact. At the base of the gables are broad round-headed entrances with split-stone voussoirs and recessed doors. Each house has single window wings with gables over 2-light first floor windows and 3-light ground floor windows, all under cambered relieving arches. The asymmetrical gable ends to the west and south have attic lights, kneelers, and stone chimney stacks on the rear pitch, with the southern stack being roughcast rendered. The ground floor doorways of Nos 22 and 28 have segmental arched hoods and flanking windows. The rear features flat-roofed dormers and tiled outshuts, with replaced windows that mimic the original style.