14 And 15 And Attached Railings And Coach House

A pair of large townhouses, dating circa 1830, were built for Peter Catterall (an attorney), and later subdivided into two houses with an early addition. They are now used as barristers' chambers and offices. The buildings are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. They have a deep double-depth plan, with back extensions and attached outbuildings, including a former coach-house.

The houses are three stories high, with cellars and attics, and have a 3+3 bay layout. The front is symmetrical, though originally designed with five bays, evidenced by vertical joints in the front and rear walls and an upstand over the fourth bay, suggesting a later addition to the left. The lower level is ashlar, with a first-floor sill band, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice and a blocking course with an upstand over the fourth bay. The doorways, one in the first and the other in the fourth bay, each have stone doorcases with engaged columns, plain friezes and moulded cornices, but differ in style: Tuscan at No.14, and Ionic at No.15 (the larger house). No.14 has a modern door with an overlight, while No.15 has a panelled door with margin-paned overlight. Cast-iron railings with curvilinear balusters enclose the two-bay basement areas, the one on the right having windows, while the other is now filled in. Most of the windows are sashed, with raised sills and wedge lintels, and they are mostly unhorned. A skylight and a segmental-headed dormer are present at No.14. There are coped gables, side-wall and central chimneys.

The return wall of No.15, facing Camden Place, has sashed windows on three levels, and a narrow three-story link to a two-story back extension with sashes on both floors. Attached to the rear corner of this extension, facing Back Starkie Street, is a cubic coach-house with two elliptical arches featuring triple keystones; the right-hand arch contains a four-pane sash, while the left was formerly similar but is now blind. The coach-house has a stone band, two segmental-headed windows at the first floor (one blind, the other a two-light casement), a stone gutter cornice and a pyramidal roof.

The interior of No.15 features a front room with an egg-and-dart frieze and an elaborate plaster cornice, a dog-legged staircase with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail, and a full cellar suite. The front room also originally had a fireplace, now blocked. Significant alterations have been made throughout.