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ST5773SW CLIFTON PARK, Clifton 901-1/8/796 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.6 AND 7 Leny (6), and attached gateway and front garden walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON PARK (North side) Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1830. Limestone ashlar with external and party wall stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has projecting wings with small raised gables, shallow first-floor and attic drip courses, moulded parapet, blind windows to the party wall, and side entrances. Shallow, canted outer 3-light bays have a wavy running moulding below the parapet and Tudor-arched windows to 4/4-pane sashes, and similar arched windows to the attic above; the rest have very shallow architraves, with 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane to the middle attic windows, some with surviving Tudor-arched top panes. Right-hand return has a central open porch, a Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould, a pitched parapet with wavy mouldings, to a Tudor-arched 2-leaf half-glazed door; above is a shallow, gabled projection with a second-floor Tudor-arched window, a right-hand bay has paired 4/4-pane sashes, and left-hand external stack. Similar left-hand return has a 2-storey left-hand porch with cinquefoil-headed windows and machicolated parapet, attached to a left-hand 2-storey bay with mullion and transom windows and crenellated parapet. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached ashlar gateway to No.6 has a semicircular-arched doorway with panelled surround, between Jacobethan pilasters, and a cartouche inscribed LENY; rubble front garden walls, panelled piers and railings with fleur-de-lys heads. The earliest of two fine pairs of Tudor Gothic villas; Nos 8 & 9 (qv) comprise a later but more ornate example.

Listing NGR: ST5715573477

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