24, 25 AND 26, QUEEN SQUARE

24, 25, and 26 Queen Square are a row of three houses, now used as offices, built between 1810 and 1815 by John and George Bischoff. The houses are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and feature a slate roof with gable coping on the far right. They are two storeys high, each with one window and an entrance on the right side. The entrances have six-panel doors with fanlights; the fanlights for numbers 24 and 26 include radial glazing bars. Each door is framed by a wooden pilastered surround with console brackets and cornices. The windows are 16-pane sashes with stone sills and wedge lintels. Eaves brackets are present, and there is a multiflue stack that straddles the ridge to the left of each house. The right return of number 26 features a central door with a worn semicircular step up, an overlight, and a wooden surround, with 16-pane sashes on the right side at both the ground and first floors, as well as a blocked attic window and turned-in kneelers. The interior has not been inspected. This square began development in 1806 with two houses on the northwest side, and this side represents the second stage, featuring nine smaller houses built between 1810 and 1815.