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Description: Nos. 117-136 (consecutive) Includes 97-116 (consecutive) Railway Terrace

Address: 97 - 117 Railway Terrace Copley Halifax Calderdale HX3

Grade: II

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

Full description:
Back-to-back terrace of 40 houses. 1840's for Colonel Edward Akroyd probably by W H Crossland. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Chamfered plinth. Tudor arched doors with ornamental strap hinges in stop chamfered surrounds. End houses break forward under coped gables 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. 122/123 and 130/131 (also 102/103 and 110/111 Railway Terrace) similar but with shared gable dormer with paired single light with transom. All windows double chamfered. Projecting course at eaves provides continuous support to cast iron gutter. 9 stacks to ridge have plinth and tabling. Garden walls to St Stephen's Street in narrow 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.