Description

SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE DORFOLD STREET

2/43 Nos.2 to 20 (even) [formerly listed as Nos 2 to 24 29.3.76 (even)] GV II

Terrace of 10 cottages, circa 1848, by John Cunningham, as part of Engineer Joseph Locke's original layout for the Grand Junction Railway Company; now private dwellings. Brown brick with slate roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays each, off stone plinth. Built handed in pairs with Tudor arched entrance porches on either side of projecting gable. Original entrance doors replaced by multi-panel doors. Single light casements in porch gables, two-light horizontally sliding sashes elsewhere, all have stone sills and flat chamfered arches. Small blank sunken panel, with chamfered surround, in porch gable apex and slightly shaped narrow barge board. Eaves gutter on moulded fascia, lead valleys, four-flue party wall stacks and blue tile ridges. Nos.1 to 19 (odd) Dorfold Street, Nos.1 to 19 (odd) and 2 to 20 (even) Betley Street, and Nos.1 to 9 (consecutive) Tollitt Street (q.q.v.) were built as part of the same development.

Listing NGR: SJ7048955629

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