Survey Data
Reg No
50080867
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
314839, 232862
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of twenty-five double-pile two-bay and three-bay single-storey houses, built c.1880, having returns to rear (west) elevation. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, with red brick chimneystacks having sawtooth courses and clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and decorative sawtooth polychrome brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, having chamfered brick plinth course. Square-headed and segmental-headed window openings with polychrome voussoirs, cut granite sills, some with brick corbels, one-over-one pane and two-over-two pane timber sash windows and replacement timber and uPVC windows. Some round-headed porch openings with polychrome brick voussoirs, some having square-headed door opening set within porch, with timber panelled doors, sidelights and overlights, approached by cut granite steps. Some having timber panelled doors with carved timber doorcases having decorative corbels and plain fanlights, approached by cut granite steps. Some cast-iron bootscrapes. Front gardens enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths, some having matching pedestrian gates.
Appraisal
This area was developed by private developers building small groups of houses at a time, with the proceeds from one group being used to finance the construction of the next section of terrace. As a result, there are pleasing variations in streets of stylistically similar houses, with minor decorative changes in door surrounds and window shapes. The construction of new residential streets in this area coincided with the immigration of Jewish communities fleeing pogroms in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and the area became known as Little Jerusalem. The 1901 census indicated numerous Jewish families of Russian origin lived on Raymond Street, mostly involved in the drapery trade, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes several 'hebrah' or minor synagogues on neighbouring streets.