Building record 11095 - Pyecroft Street, Handbridge

Pyecroft Street consists of a terrace of 19 cottages built in the 1850s of unusual plan with detached properties at either end of the street. (1)

The terrace is of Flemish bond brown brick with a grey slate roof hipped at the end. Built in the late Georgian style they are two storeys high of one or two bays width. There were originally no rear-facing windows, but circular recesses in the gable of each rear wing and at the mid-point of the rear wall between gables suggest former haylofts with pitching-eyes, now blocked. Bathrooms and windows were later inserted. In 1861 tradesmen lived here, perhaps using horses and carts, and hence storage for hay and straw. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469886; 469887; 469888 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.