2-24 Summerhill Street

Includes No. 5 Elswick Road. Terrace of houses. Mid C19. English garden wall bond
brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs, sandstone rubble
rear and returns. 2 storeys, 2 bays each. Right corner is shop with carved bracketed
fascia and curved corner bay. Architraves to doors, some 4-panelled, with over-
lights. Wedge stone lintels to windows, nearly all sashes and some with glazing
bars; curved window in right corner to Westgate Road. Ground floor projecting stone
sills; first floor sill band. Eaves band and gutter cornices. End brick chimneys,
some ashlar-corniced. Included for group value with Church of St. Matthew and as
example of early working-class housing. LISTED GRADE 2