32 Garden Suburbs, Circus

Nos 30-36 (even - consec) Garden Suburbs, Circus Arts and Crafts, butterfly-plan block comprising four houses. This differs from the preceeding Nos 22 to 28 in that it steps down the slope with the result that No 30 is single-storey and attic while the taller No 36 is 2-storey and attic; Nos 32 and 34, with the advanced gables, have 2-window fronts. Distinctively gabled, roughcast elevations with tiled roofs, overhanging eaves and tall chimney stacks including three to the main front pitch; No 30 has a hipped roof, tile-hung, dormer. The design shows possible influence of the architecture of C F A Voysey and Philip Webb. Original windows have leaded casement glazing but many have been replaced with modern imitations within the original openings. The symmetrical design of the main front is focused on the twinned gables to the centre which have stepped brick-tile kneelers and 4-light windows (cambered arched to No 34) over splayed bays. Further 4-light windows, including to the gable end of No 30 and to first floor of No 36 under a hipped hood; also a similar 5-light window to the gable end of No 36. The entrances to Nos 30 and 36 are on the gable ends and are square-headed with bracketed hoods; Nos 32 and 36 have round-arched entrances with recessed doors. Asymmetrical gable ends to N and W (Nos 30 and 36) with similar brick-tile kneelers and stone chimney stacks to rear pitch; the gable to No 36 is boarded above the attic window. Flat-roofed dormers at 2 levels to rear, part cat-slide roof, with tiled gabled outshuts.