36 Garden Suburbs, Circus

36 Garden Suburbs, Circus is a Grade II listed Arts and Crafts block consisting of four houses, numbered 30 to 36. This building features a butterfly plan and steps down the slope, resulting in No 30 being a single-storey house with an attic, while the taller No 36 is two-storey with 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 has 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 feature leaded casement glazing, though many have been replaced with modern imitations within the original openings. The symmetrical main front is centered on twinned gables, which have stepped brick-tile kneelers and 4-light windows, with a cambered arch on No 34, above splayed bays. Additional 4-light windows can be found, including on the gable end of No 30 and on the first floor of No 36 under a hipped hood, as well as 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 are square-headed with bracketed hoods, while Nos 32 and 34 feature round-arched entrances with recessed doors. The gable ends of Nos 30 and 36 are asymmetrical, with 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 includes flat-roofed dormers at two levels, part of a cat-slide roof, with tiled gabled outshuts.