Beyond it, in an open space, they came to an isolated terrace of small red-brick cottages.

Neat two-storey or three-storey houses stand next to run-down red-brick cottages whose inhabitants struggle to make ends meet.

The small, grey stone houses, hard and unadorned, were interrupted at intervals by rows of brand-new, red-brick cottages.

It is but a small place, with an ivied church, a fine vicarage, and a row of red-brick cottages each in its own little garden.

Wherever working people inhabit a street of continuous red-brick cottages, the names that they give to their homes are one long catalogue of romantic lies.