Reg No
50080873
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
314853, 232741
Date Recorded
02/12/2013
Date Updated
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Terrace of six double-pile two-bay single-storey over basement houses, built c.1880, having two-storey rear (east) elevation with single-storey returns. M-profile pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods and moulded red brick eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having chamfered yellow brick plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Segmental-headed window openings with polychrome brick voussoirs, block-and-start red brick surrounds to basement level, cut granite sills, two-over-two pane timber sash windows and replacement timber and uPVC windows. Round-headed door openings having polychrome voussoirs, chamfered brick reveals, timber panelled doors, carved timber doorcases with decorative corbels, and plain fanlight approached by cut granite platforms and steps. Some cast-iron coal hole covers. Basement areas enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths.
This area was developed by private developers building small groups of houses at a time, and the proceeds from one group was 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 decorative ironwork. 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.