8-14 (even) Barstow Square and 11-17 (odd) King Street

A terrace of townhouses dating from the late 18th century, with later additions including a solicitors' chambers of around 1880. The building is now in office and residential use.

The terrace comprises a three-storey block fronting Barstow Square, with additions to King Street of varying heights (some three-storey, some lower), and a two-storey block to the north-west facing both streets. The buildings are constructed in red brick with stone slate roofs, sandstone dressings (painted), and some render.

The principal façade to Barstow Square (numbers 8, 10 and 12) is eleven windows wide and designed in neoclassical style. It is built in Flemish bond brickwork with a stone ground-floor plinth and sill band, a modillioned cornice, and an open pediment over the five central windows. The centre bay contains a three-storey arched recess. The windows feature gauged-brick flat arches and stone sills; most are replacement horned sash windows retaining cylinder glass, though the top floor has modern casements except for bay 4, which retains a three-over-three unhorned sash window. Bays 3 and 9 have entrances with narrow pilasters and scroll-bracketed triangular pediments with dentil cornices. All three doors are six-panelled with oblong fanlights and eared architraves with friezes and cornices over.

Number 8 (comprising the three right-hand bays) shows cement render repairs below the eaves with associated brickwork damage. Above the central entrance, the first-floor window is tripartite with outer pilasters and inner columns, a frieze, and dentil cornice with central pediment. The second-floor window has a shouldered, eared architrave. The central pediment features a blind bullseye window in an architrave within rebuilt brickwork.

Number 14 (the rear of King Street Chambers) consists of three bays in Flemish bond with a plinth and ground-floor sill band, and a central recessed arch. The ground floor has a segmental arch with decoratively-carved imposts, a stopped hoodmould and a carved-head keystone. Flanking this are stacked tripartite sash windows in segmental openings, with a single sash above bearing a gauged-brick flat arch. Both end walls are abutted and thus not visible.

To King Street, number 11 is two storeys with two windows; numbers 13 and 15 are both three storeys with two windows each. These are all scored-rendered with corbelled eaves gutters. Numbers 11 and 13 retain unhorned sash windows to the lower two floors, with upper sashes of six and eight panes respectively. The ground floor window of number 13 is tripartite.

Number 15a is rendered and single-storey with an earlier gabled bay to the left and a flat roof to the right, housing shop windows. Above it is visible the rendered, largely blind rear wall of 12 Barstow Square, apart from two small windows. A small lean-to toilet extension stands above the roof of 15a in the angle between 12 Barstow Square and 17 King Street.

Number 17 is two storeys, set back behind a single-storey, flat-roofed entrance range with a stone cornice. The central entrance is surmounted by the inscription KING STREET CHAMBERS and flanked by arched lancets. To either side are tripartite sash windows with stone sills and lintels. The first floor, set back above, has a central arched stair window with lower sash and red margin lights, flanked by small casements and four-pane sash windows. The eaves gutters are supported by corbels and iron brackets. The roof ridge has gable stacks at either end.

Interior features survive selectively. The Barstow Square interiors are largely altered but retain the original first-to-second floor stair to number 12, featuring turned balusters and ramped handrail. Window shutters and some two-panel doors with L-hinges survive. The roof retains hewn purlins and rafters supplemented with machine-sawn trusses. Some cornices, architraves, skirtings and fire surrounds also survive. Number 10 Barstow Square retains a vaulted basement and a late 19th-century fireproof strongroom adjacent to the Barstow Square entrance. Number 8 Barstow Square retains a partially-flagged ground floor and some cornices and shutters. Number 15 King Street has an altered ground floor (library) and altered upper floor (storage), with late 19th-century office interior to the first floor.

King Street Chambers retains its stone-flagged basement, decorative cornices, architraves and panelled doors. Its staircase survives with decorative newel and ramped handrail, though the balusters are replacements.