26 Garden Suburbs, Circus

Nos 22-28 (even - consec) Garden Suburb, Circus Arts and Crafts, butterfly-plan block comprising four, 2-storey and attic, houses, each with single window range front. Rubble elevations with quoins, tiled roofs with swept overhanging eaves and tall chimney stacks, including three to the main front pitch; the original windows have leaded casement glazing. The symmetrical design of the main front is focused on the distinctive twinned gables which show possible influence of the architecture of Philip Webb. They sweep down low to either side and are jettied out and boarded to top over 4-light windows. Although the gables here have modern boarding, replacement glazing and modern ground floor bow windows (? originally bays - cf Nos 49 to 55), the Arts and Crafts character of the original design is largely retained. At the base of the gables are broad round-headed entrances with split-stone voussoirs and recessed doors. Single window wings have gables over 2-light first floor windows and 3-light ground floor windows under cambered relieving arches. Asymmetrical gable ends to W and S with attic lights, kneelers and stone chimney stacks to rear pitch; that to south is roughcast rendered. Ground floor doorways with segmental arched hoods and flanking windows to Nos 22 and 28. Flat roofed dormers and tiled outshuts to rear. Replaced windows in similar style to original.