BELLE VALE ROAD (continued)

Church of St Stephen. 1872-4, architect Cornelius Sherlock, red sandstone Decorated style of c.1300, battlemented N.W. tower with octagonal spire. Ogee-headed double lights to aisles, 4 circular clerestory windows, fish-scale slate roof to chancel. West Window stained glass by Burne-Jones 1883, stock designs but with '10 seraph heads' and roundel 'Christ blessing little children' designed for Sir A.B. Walker in memory of his first wife who died 1882. (Listed, outside Conservation Area.)

Church Cottages. In 3 blocks, 1872 by Cornelius Sherlock, 2-storeys, brick & half timbering, gabled upper storeys on brackets, casement windows; doors under porch roofs on brackets some windows with stone mullions and small sashes, tall clustered chimneys set on diagonal. (Listed, outside Conservation Area).

HALEWOOD ROAD

Nos 1 & 1a. Red sandstone ashlar, before 1835, forming corner of Belle Vale Road. 2-storeys, 2 modern doors, 4 16-paned sash windows above. Note careful rebuilding of shop front in 1957.

Nos 5, 7 & 9. Brick cottages (post 1848) 2-storey, slate roof, panelled doors with rectangular fanlight and glazing bars, 3 12-paned sash windows on ground floor and 4 above.

Kingsley. Mid C19 brick villa before 1848, in Georgian tradition, 2-storeys with moulded stone cornice, 6-panelled centre door and round fanlight with glazing bars, in fluted pilaster doorcase (a reconstruction) with open pediment; 2 12-paned sashes on ground floor and 3 above with stone sills and lintels.

Nos 2, 4, 4a, 6 & 8. Row of brick cottages, ground floors now small shops. No.2 projects with 2 windows up, and a round moulded arched doorway with traceried fanlight. Nos 4, 6 & 8 on 1840 map, 12-paned sash windows up, ground floors converted to shops within the last 25 years, one gate-pier survives.

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