14-22, BARKHAM STREET

This is a terrace of ten houses located at 14-22 Barkham Street, built in 1847 by Sydney Smirke. The houses feature a slate roof with stone-coped gables and stone coping that defines the roof of each house. There are six ridge stacks and two gable stacks, with the eastern stack projecting. The terrace is two and a half storeys high with a basement and has an 18-bay south front.

The first floor has a sill band and a richly moulded band on the second floor. Steps lead up to a doorway on the right, which has a moulded architrave, reveal, and a panelled door. To the left, there is a glazing bar sash window with large panes and a moulded architrave. There are eight doorways beyond, all featuring moulded architraves, reveals, and panelled doors, alternating with eight projecting rectangular bay windows. Each bay window has small basement openings and tripartite glazing bar sashes with large panes above, flanked by pilasters, broad entablatures, and moulded cornices.

Above, there are 18 glazing bar sashes with large panes and moulded architraves, along with 18 small glazing bar sashes with cambered heads. The east side of the north range has a slightly set-back, curved south-east corner with a projecting stack, and a small basement opening in the curved corner. There is a single basement glazing bar sash with a segmental head beyond the stack, and a curved corner with a single glazing bar sash above, featuring a moulded architrave and large panes. An insurance plaque is located above this window. To the right of the stack, there is a similar window, and above are two small glazing bar sashes with cambered heads, along with a 20th-century casement window in between.

This terrace was built for the Bethlem Hospital and is designed in the style of similar tenements owned by the same institution in Southwark.