Description

5112
SE 02 SE
SP/597

ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Nos 61-79 (consecutive)
Includes 79-96 (consecutive)
Railway Terrace

II
GV

Back-to-back terrace of 36 houses, 1840's for Colonel Edward Akroyd probably
by W H Crossland. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
Tudor arched doors with ornamental strap hinges in stop-chamfered surrounds.
End houses break forward under coped gables with 3 light mullion and transom
windows to both floors and blind lancet above. Door in return elevation. Others
have door with 3 light mullion and transom window to alternate sides with 3
light mullion window above but offset and single light to other side forming
a pair with adjacent house. Nos 66/67 and 72/73 (also 84/85 and 90/91 Railway
Terrace) similar but with shared gabled dormer with paired single light with
transom. All windows double chamfered. Projecting course at eaves provides
continuous support to cast iron gutter. 10 stacks to ridge have plinth and
tabling. Garden walls to St Stephen's Street in narrow coursed sandstone with
triangular copings. Important early example of planned industrial housing.
N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1979) p 170; D Linstrum, West Yorkshire
Architects and Architecture (London 1978) p 135-6.

Listing NGR: SE0843722517

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431792

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings