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Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL SOUTH CRESCENT
NZ 5233 & 5333
(north-west side),
Headland.
9/105 Nos. 1 to 6
(consecutive)
31.3.49

GV II

Includes No. 16A Baptist Street (rear part of No. 1 South Crescent) and No.
32 (Piercliffe) St. Hilda's Chare. Terrace of 7 houses, early/mid C19.
Stucco on brick, except for exposed brick frontage of No.1. Painted stone
dressings and chamfered quoins at angles. Welsh slate roofs. Gently curved
convex plan. 3 storeys. No.1 has pilaster-and-entablature doorcase to
left, below late C19 sash window with painted sill and wedge lintel;
2-storey mid C20 segmental-plan bay window to right; and three 2nd floor
windows with mid C20 casements, wedge lintels and sill bands. Nos.2 to 6
have wood pilaster-and-entablature doorcases to right. Nos. 2,3,4,6 and
32, have 2-storey canted bay windows flanked by pilasters. No. 5 has
similar ground-floor bay window and 2 first-floor windows with cambered
heads. Nos. 2 to 6 and 32 each have two 2nd floor windows with continuous
sill bands. Nos. 2 to 5 have late C19 sashes; others have mid/late C20
altered glazing; all doors renewed mid/late C20. Nos. 3 to 6 and 32 have
narrow blocking course at eaves; narrow blocking course and moulded eaves
cornice to Nos. 1 and 2 and both end returns. Continuous roof, hipped at
ends and concealed behind shallow parapet. 6 brick ridge stacks; gabled
roof dormer to No. 3. Left return has 2 windows to ground and first floors,
those to left being mid C20 casements in enlarged openings, sashes to right.
3 second-floor openings, that to centre having mid C20 casement, others
blocked. Right-hand return (No. 32) of 3 bays with round-headed central
doorway; mid C20 casement windows in original openings to centre and
right-hand bay; blocked openings to left-hand bay. Later extensions to rear
are not of interest.


HARTLEPOOL BAPTIST STREET
NZ 5233 and 5333
(east-side)
Headland

8/45 & 9/45 No 16A

GV II

Wrongly shown as No. 16 Baptist Street on 0.S. plan. See under Nos 1 to 6
(consecutive) South Crescent.




Listing NGR: NZ5292233538

Source: English Heritage

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