Survey Data
Reg No
50080869
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
314863, 232892
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of double-pile split-level two-bay single-storey houses, built c.1880, having two-storey rear (east) elevation and single-storey returns. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, and decorative red brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, having chamfered red brick plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut granite sills, and one-over-one pane and six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Round-headed door openings having timber panelled doors with carved timber doorcases having decorative corbels and plain fanlights, approached by cut granite steps. Cast-iron coal hole cover to path of no.28. Front gardens enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths.
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 a street of stylistically similar houses. Much historic fabric is retained, including timber sash windows, timber doorcases and cast-iron railings. 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 indicates numerous Jewish families of Russian origin living on Raymond Street, mostly involved in the drapery trade, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 notes several 'hebrah' or minor synagogues on neighbouring streets.