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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553739

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)