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Description: Nos. 61-79 (consecutive) Includes 79-96 (consecutive) Railway Terrace

Address: 79 - 96 Railway Terrace Copley Halifax Calderdale HX3 0UJ

Grade: II

Group detail: St Stephen's Street (Railway Terrace)

Full description:
Back-to-back terrace of 36 houses. 1840's for Colonel Edward Akroyd probably by W H Crossland. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Tudor arched doors with ornamental strap hinges in stop chamfered surrounds. End houses break forward under coped gabes with 3-light mullion and transom windows to both floors and blind lancet above. Door in return elevation. Others have door with 3-light mullion and transom window to alternate sides with 3 light mullion window above but offset and single light to other side forming a pair with adjacent house. Nos. 66/67 and 72/73 (also 84/85 and 90/91 Railway Terrace) similar but with shared gabled dormer with paired single light with transom. All windows double chamfered. Projecting course at eaves provides continuous support to cast iron gutter. 10 stacks to ridge have plinth and tabling. Garden walls to St Stephen's Street in narrow coursed sandstone with triangular copings. Important early example of planned industrial housing. N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1979) p 170; D Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (London 1978) p 135-6.