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| The houses were built in the late 18th century of local red brick in Flemish bond. They are of two storeys with basements and attics, of double pile form and have been built up against numbers 40 and 43 West Street. Access to no. 41 is from the frontage but no. 42 has a passageway that runs the length of the house to provide access to the yards at the rear and the entrance door is within the passage. | The houses were built in the late 18th century of local red brick in Flemish bond. They are of two storeys with basements and attics, of double pile form and have been built up against numbers 40 and 43 West Street. Access to no. 41 is from the frontage but no. 42 has a passageway that runs the length of the house to provide access to the yards at the rear and the entrance door is within the passage. | ||
| - | Inside each house two rooms each on ground and first floor, two attic rooms and a basement. The attics sit in separate roof spaces with a gully through the middle, accessed by their own staircases and with their own dormer windows for light. | + | Inside each house two rooms each on ground and first floor, two attic rooms and a basement. The attics sit in separate roof spaces with a valley through the middle, accessed by their own staircases and with their own dormer windows for light. |
| The rear yards to both properties have substantial lean-to outbuildings built up against the western boundary wall. The outbuildings have chimney stacks and one has the remnants of a boiler, suggesting that the buildings were originally washhouses and once again showing that the houses were highly specified in the 18th century and built to offer flexible accommodation options. | The rear yards to both properties have substantial lean-to outbuildings built up against the western boundary wall. The outbuildings have chimney stacks and one has the remnants of a boiler, suggesting that the buildings were originally washhouses and once again showing that the houses were highly specified in the 18th century and built to offer flexible accommodation options. | ||
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