6 Lenton Road

Part of a group of similarly styled houses on triangular plot of land enclosed by Lenton Road, Park Drive and Holles Crescent. Built c1865-70, possibly by John Loverseed with architects Hine & Evans. Semi-detached. In single household use. Three storeys plus basement/cellars. Plan by architects Sutton, Pearce and Dick for garage and cloakroom for Mr J. A. MacKerral c1957. Red brick facades with stone dressings. Decorative features include buff brick string courses and band courses of small, recessed rectangular buff brick panels. Red and buff brick cruciform patterns to bay parapet and bull nosed brick detail at eaves and gable verges. Two storey canted window bay on front facade and shallow single storey box bay at main entrance doorway. Combination of openings, some with segmental or semicircular arched chamfered heads and reveals. Stone surrounds to original door and windows. Stone lintels and sills to rear windows. Stonework generally plain with chamfered reveals and lintels, mouldings added to cornice detail on bays and drip mould above large mullioned window at ground floor level on front facade. Stonework, now painted. Double pitched slate roof with gables. Clay ridge tiles and lead valleys. Flat roof dormer at rear. Red brick chimney stacks, originally with stone plinth stretchers, buff brick patterning, corbelled brick heads and stone caps, now altered. A number of the original buff ‘crown’ chimney pots have been replaced. Original c.i. rainwater fittings have been replaced and downpipes added. Sash windows generally, some with glazing bars. Original brick and stone boundary wall to Lenton Road, now partly rendered. Original gate opening with piers and steps now enlarged to provide car access into former garden area, including tarmac drive and brick retaining walls. Front garden area originally shared with No.4 Lenton Road.