51 Garden Suburbs, Circus

Nos 49-55 (odd - consec) Garden Suburbs, Circus Arts and Crafts, butterfly-plan block comprising four, 2-storey houses, each with single window range front. The design of the distinctively gabled elevations shows possible influence of the architecture of Philip Webb. Nos 49 and 55 are pebbledashed while Nos 51 and 53 are tile-hung and all have tiled roofs with swept overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks. Some of the original leaded casement glazing is retained and is otherwise mostly replaced in imitation. The symmetrical design of the main front is focused on the twinned, tile-hung, gables which sweep down low to either side and are jettied out and boarded to top (compare with Nos 22 to 28). 4-light windows to first floor and splayed bays below with hipped roofs. The entrances are to either side, contained beneath the base of the gables. Single-window wings have hipped hoods to 3-light first floor windows. In contrast to Nos 22 to 28 and Nos 30 to 36 the gable ends to north and east are symmetrical and have brick-tiled detail and cambered-arched 5-light windows to first floor, 7-light below. Gabled rear with fewer dormers than on the other principal blocks.