Description

SYDNEY BUILDINGS
656-1/42/1619 (West side)
Nos.12-16 (Consec)
05/08/75

GV II

Five terrace houses on site that slopes to rear and backs onto the Kennet and Avon Canal. Mid/late C19.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, single pitched slate roofs with dormers and moulded stacks to left gable end and alternate coped party walls; almost unaltered feature of cream crown-topped chimney pots.
PLAN: Double depth plans.
EXTERIOR: Each house of two storeys, with a two-bay front to street. Fretted bargeboards to gabled dormer of each house; stop-chamfered arrises and bracketed sills to plate glass sash windows; ground floor platband that encircles block; cornices on elaborate consoles over six-panel doors and overlights. Rear, or canal side elevations are more architectural: the houses at either end of the row have hipped roofs over full-height rectangular bays; the three central houses have similar but canted bays, all with sill bands and plate glass sash windows.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7583564785

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674236

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version