Round Hill Street
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General Comments
A relatively narrow streets of facing two storey late 19th century terraced houses and a small number of commercial properties. Mostly rendered and painted. Slopes gently to the south with terrace houses stepping down in height. 1884 Round Hill Road and Round Hill Street were first listed.
Streetscape
Local listed lamp post
No long distance views.
Houses at back of pavement.
1-19 (odd) Round Hill Street (west side)
Houses 1-15 date from 1880 and were designed for Gates by architectural firm E.E. Scott and R.S Hyde, a partnership which lasted from 1874 to 1882.
Salvage / Salvage added 4 houses as well as some garages and stores at the north end of Round Hill Street in 1925.
No.1 Possibly Nos. 1a and 1b.
The house appears to be a slightly grander double-jointed version on houses in the street. Two-storey with single-storey canted bays and projected bracketed eaves. First-floor windows divided into two by pilasters
Now substantially altered and diminished with unsympathetic replacement windows (mix of timber and upc casements). Doorways positions do not appear to be original.
Nos 3-15
Terrace of two-storey, stucco-fronted terraced houses with single-storey canted bay windows and tripartite first floor windows. Projecting eaves with brackets with simple console scroll brackets at the boundary between properties.
Recessed porches with simple Tuscan doorway entablature.
Timber box sash windows retained providing a strong group value, except for No.2.
The first-floor tripartite widow divisions have been lost to Nos. 7 and 13
The original stucco cornice detail to the bay windows have been lost in some cases. Original slate roofs have been replaced with concrete tile. Stucco chimneys with some clay pots surviving.
Several doors have been replaced with less sympathetic designs. No 3 recessed doorway has been infilled.
Nos. 17 and 19
Two-storey painted rough-cast faced with square projecting bays and stucco panels painted black to look like timber. Most likely two of the four houses added by Salvage / Salvage in 1925.
2- 18 (even) Round Hill Street (east side)
Houses 2-18 date from 1880 and were designed for Chambers by E.E. Scott and R.S Hyde. Two-storey, stucco-fronted terraced houses with single-storey canted bay windows and tripartite first floor windows. Projecting eaves with brackets with simple console scroll brackets at the boundary between properties.
Recessed porches with simple Tuscan doorway entablature. Steps up to from street towards the southern end.
Timber box sash windows retained providing a strong group value, except for No.2. No 2 harms the group value with UPVc top-hung casement windows to the canted bay and upvc window to the first floor with the tripartite widow division lost.
The original stucco cornice detail to the bay windows have been lost in some cases.
Original slate roofs have been replaced with concrete tile. Stucco chimneys with some clay pots surviving.
20-26 Round Hill Street (east side) at north end
Two-storey former factory/warehouse building. White-painted with Upvc windows.
The building is now known as Unit 4 Yoga and Natural Health Centre. It also incorporates an established training centre called The College of Classical Massage.
Occupations of early residents
At the time of the 1891 census, Round Hill Street had 18 households. The census identifies. 8 railway-related jobs ranging from labourer, goods guard, clerk, machinist to carriage maker. At no.1, both father and younger son are coal merchants; the older son is a harness maker.
There are laundresses at nos. 5 and 14. Also at no. 14, there is a laundry porter and a washer in a steam laundry.
The heads of household in nos. 7 and 9 both work in domestic service: a coachman and a butler. The occupations of the butler’s daughters aged 23 and 21 are described as “professional theatrical”.
In spite of the proximity of Cutress’s bakery, there is just one baker.
The three youngest workers in the street are aged 14: Lilly George a general servant, Rosina Woolcot a dressmaker’s apprentice and Stephen Tawney a milk boy. There are also a 15-year-old ironmonger’s assistant and a 16-year-old wine merchant’s porter. The age range of the school children in the street is from 4 to 12.
The end of the street looks towards the backs of houses on the south side of Princes Road.
When the houses were built
1880 1 - 15 Round Hill Street
1880 2 - 18 Round Hill Street
1925 four houses added at north end of street
1925 garages and stores added at north end of street
20-26 Round Hill Street - two storey former factory warehouse now known as Unit 4 Yoga and Natural Health Centre, incorporating The College of Classical Massage.
Round Hill history texts
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