17-24, FALKNER SQUARE

A terrace of eight houses on Falkner Square, built in 1834. The houses are stucco-faced with hipped slate roofs, and are three storeys high with a basement. Each house has three bays. A band runs along the basement lintel, and bands run along the sills of the first and second floors and the top frieze, cornice, and blocking course. Numbers 20 and 21 break forward slightly under a pediment. The ground and first floor windows have architraves; those on the first floor are eared. Central first-floor windows have consoled pediments. A blind window is centrally positioned on the second floor of each house. The windows are sash windows, except those on the ground floor. The entrances are set back behind Ionic porticoes with four-panel doors within architraves. Iron railings with decorative heads are present to the areas and steps, and a continuous iron balcony extends over the porches to the first floor. There are three-bay returns to the sides. Number 17 lacks architraves to the windows and has no blind window on the second floor; its balcony over the porch is missing. Number 22 lacks consoled pediments to its first-floor window.