NHER 34207 (Building record) - 22, 24, 26 and 28 Nelson Street

June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Range of four houses, now three (Nos 22, 24 and 26-28). Early 17th century, refaced late 18th century. Brick, rendered and colourwashed to Nos 26-28. Plaintile roof. The two formerly centre houses are on the lobby entrance plan. Two storeys and dormer attic. Nos 22 and 24 have panelled doors to left of elevations under pedimented hoods on 20th-century consoles. One sash to right of each with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, that to No.24 in a flush frame. Platband at first floor of No.22 below two sash windows with glazing bars. Modillion timber eaves cornice. First floor of No.24 lit through two late 17th-century two-light cross casements with glazing bars and renewed opening lights. Between No.24 and the six-bay Nos 26-28 is the passage to rear. Nos 26-28 with rusticated quoins and keystones to windows. Panelled doors in third and sixth bays, the former with a gabled hood, the latter unused. Fenestration of mid-18th-century sashes with glazing bars. Blind windows over each door. Gabled roof over whole range with one gabled dormer to each house. Two symmetrically-placed stepped 17th-century ridge stacks. Passage to rear with timber studwork. Rear with a two-storey hipped wing to south lit through an early 17th-century four-light mullioned and leaded casement at first-floor level. Rear of No.24 with a two-storey gabled wing lit by, at the Interior: Only Nos 26-28 inspected. Formerly two houses. Lobby entrance, fireplaces blocked. North wall of ground-floor north room to No.26 with large-framed 18th-century panelling and a shell cupboard in north-east corner. Late 20th-century staircase."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
See also (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 16 February 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 March 2025.