17-23 Corniche Road
Nos. 17–23 Corniche Road (1897–9), a terrace of four houses by Lutyens, form an intentionally complex composition of recessed central gables with first‑floor Venetian windows, widening roofed porches with diagonally set doors, and contrasting tile‑hung end bays above brick and roughcast walls.
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Description
Terrace of 4 houses. 1899. By Sir Edwin Lutyens. Brick roughcast central bays on brick base, tile-hung 1st floors to end bays, tile roofs. 2 storeys 4 bays, central bays recessed under gables, end bay has hipped gable, 2 projecting porch blocks with hipped roofs connected to main roof by narrow strips. Windows have small-paned casements most of 3 lights. 1st bay ground floor window taken round angle. 1st floor has Venetian windows to central bays, and 3-light window to end bay. Porch blocks have canted angles with 4-panel doors and flanking small lights. Cross-axial stack, left return gable-end stack and right return lateral stack. Rear similar, plaster 1st floor, privies. (Historic England, list entry 1075466)
From here another diversion may be made e to Corniche Road to see Nos. 17–23, 1897, by Lutyens. These are perhaps over-complicated, with two rendered gables in the centre with first-floor Venetian windows. On either side the main roofs descend and widen out as porch roofs. Tile-hung end blocks, different from each other. Doors placed diagonally at the corners of the porches. (Hartwell et al, 2011, p.540)
Bibliography
Historic England.17-23, CORNICHE ROAD. [Online] Available from: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075466
Hartwell C, Hyde M, Pevsner N (2011) Cheshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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