4 Barrack Lane

Detached house c1905-10. In single household use. Building located on steeply sloping site between Barrack Lane and Derby Road. Barrack Lane, previously named Barrack Road, formed main access to Army barracks in The Park from Derby Road. Barracks, built 1793 demolished c1870, replaced by sections of new estate roads Pelham Crescent and Cavendish Crescent North. Site of house and other houses along Barrack Lane previously used as allotment gardens. Two storeys plus basement storey. Red brick with hipped plain tile roof. Single storey flat roofed late 20c extension abuts rear of house facing Barrack Lane. Adjacent to extension, built up and retained part of former garden area to provide off street car parking adjacent to Barrack Lane. Segment arched brick openings to original windows with brick sills. Projecting bay with hipped roof on garden front and double hipped roof facing north. Roof pitch extends to enclose part of upper storey on garden front. Red plain tiles with buff coloured half round hip and ridge tiles. Plain red brick chimney stacks with stone coping. Original rainwater fittings replaced and further pipework added. A number of original windows replaced. Steeply sloping garden down to coursed rubble stone boundary wall and garage building on Derby Road.