3-12, Barkham Street

This is a terrace of ten houses located on Barkham Street, built in 1847 and designed by Sydney Smirke. The houses are constructed of red brick with colourwashed stucco dressings and feature slate roofs that are hipped to the east, with a stone-coped gable to the west and stone coping defining the roof of each house. The terrace stands two and a half storeys high, with a basement, and has an 18-bay north front that includes a first-floor sill band and a deeply moulded second-floor band.

Steps lead up to a doorway on the left, which has a moulded architrave, reveal, and a panelled door. To the right of this entrance is a glazing bar sash window with large panes and a moulded architrave. There are eight additional doorways, 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 above, flanked by pilasters, broad entablatures, and moulded cornices. The terrace includes 18 glazing bar sashes with large panes above, as well as 18 smaller glazing bar sashes with cambered heads.

On the east side, the first and second-floor bands continue, and there is a slightly set-back curved north-east corner bay. A doorway on the left mirrors the earlier design with a moulded architrave, reveal, and panelled door. To the right, there is a rectangular bay window with a basement window and an upper tripartite glazing bar sash, also featuring pilasters, a broad entablature, and a moulded cornice. Beyond this is a basement tripartite glazing bar sash with a segmental head, along with a similar window in the curved bay that has an insurance plaque above. Above this, there are four smaller sashes, along with four small glazing bar sashes with cambered heads.

These houses were built for Bethlem Hospital in a style similar to other tenements constructed for the same institution in Southwark.