32 Garden Suburbs, Circus

32 Garden Suburbs, Circus is part of a group of four houses built in the Arts and Crafts style, featuring a butterfly-plan layout. This block differs from the adjacent houses at Nos 22 to 28 as it steps down the slope; No 30 is a single-storey house with an attic, while the taller No 36 has two storeys and an attic. Nos 32 and 34, which have advanced gables, each have two-window fronts. The houses have distinctively gabled, roughcast elevations with tiled roofs, overhanging eaves, and tall chimney stacks, including three on the main front pitch. No 30 features a hipped roof with tile-hung dormers. The design may show influences from the architecture of C F A Voysey and Philip Webb.

The original windows have leaded casement glazing, although many have been replaced with modern imitations. The symmetrical main front design is highlighted by the twinned gables at the center, which have stepped brick-tile kneelers and 4-light windows, with a cambered arch on No 34, over splayed bays. Additional 4-light windows are present, including one on the gable end of No 30 and another on the first floor of No 36, which is sheltered by a hipped hood. There is also a 5-light window on the gable end of No 36. The entrances to Nos 30 and 36 are located on the gable ends and feature square-headed openings with bracketed hoods, while Nos 32 and 34 have round-arched entrances with recessed doors. The gable ends of Nos 30 and 36 are asymmetrical and include similar brick-tile kneelers and stone chimney stacks on the rear pitch; the gable of No 36 is boarded above the attic window. The rear features flat-roofed dormers at two levels, part of a cat-slide roof, with tiled gabled outshuts.