| Description | This is a street of houses that face SW/NE, and was developed in blocks of four in the last decade of the 19th century. Although they have all been built at slightly different times, the houses are all similar in appearance. They are all built of stone, rusticated at the front and plain at the back. A passage leads between every two pairs of back to backs, and the gable walls of the houses in this passage are built of brick (as are the internal walls). The back yards are shared by four houses, and contain a privy for each, set back to back in pairs, with a shared ash house central to each pair. The roofs are of thin slate with moulded gutter brackets front and back, set on a string course. The windows have chamfered lintels and plain, projecting sills, and the doors have fanlights.
This is a typical Bradford ‘bye law back to back’ of the late 19th century, most probably built by a speculative builder to meet the needs of an increasing urban population (Caffyn, 1982). |