12 & 14 ACREFIELD ROAD (continued):

Occupiers of No.12:
1840 Joseph Lucas
1841 John McGahey - lithographer
1851 Philip Lott - miller
1861 John Rigby - journeyman butcher
1867 Martha Rigby
1868 Thomas Lawton
1869 empty
1870-1878 John Wright - travelling bookseller
1879-1924 Richard Taylor - boot & shoe maker
1927 Joseph Blackmore
1930 Mrs Eliz. Blackmore

Owners of Nos 12 & 14:
1835 - 1867 Henry Averill
1867 - 1871 Exors. of Henry Averill
1871 - 1872 William Henry Averill
1872 - 1876 Exors. of Wm. Henry Averill
1876 - 1900 William Ashe
1901 - 1911 Exors. of William Ashe

8 & 10 ACREFIELD ROAD, built between 1835 & 1838, Listed Grade II.

Architectural description

A pair of houses, the smallest in the group, brick with stone quoins at the front, but stone at the sides and back, of 2-storeys under a slate roof with lead-lined stone cornice gutter projecting some 9 inches. Both front doors are of the "Liverpool pattern" with blind fanlights under brick arches - No. 10 has added timber -ground "shell porch". Of the 4 sash windows, some have lost their glazing bars, but No. 8 has been re-windowed in u.p.v.c. with a very-conspicuous meeting rail. The centre window upstairs is blind. A rather less plain and simple pair than the others, but in common with No.4, Nos 12 & 14 and No.16 not set square with Acrefield Road and hence, too, the lack of a distinct building line from Nos 18 & 20 to this block, but from here to No. 2 a line develops.

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