Wentworth House And Attached Railings

Wentworth House, along with No.6 Regent Street, is a pair of houses built around 1828 and subsequently altered. They are constructed of pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The buildings have attics and basements, and feature four first-floor windows.

The exterior is three storeys high. The first floor has tall 6/9 sash windows. The second floor has 3/6 sashes with sills. The attic dormer on the left side has a casement window. The basement level has 8/8 sash windows. All ground-floor windows are 6/6 sashes with sills, set within plain reveals.

The entrance to the left-hand return, belonging to No.48 Grove Street, is reached by five steps leading to a six-panel door with an overlight, set within a fielded-pilastered surround and a hood supported by corbels. There are blind openings on the left return, two per floor, with sills. The right return (No.6 Regent Street) has two first-floor openings, with a tall 6/9 sash window on the first floor and blind openings on the second floor. A 6/6 sash window is located on the ground floor to the left. The entrance to No.6 Regent Street features steps leading to a panelled door within a projecting porch with Tuscan pilasters, a frieze, copings, and round-arched single-lights on either side. A hipped roof sits above the porch, and a central stack is topped with a cornice.

Continuous balconies with double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrades are present on the main facade’s first floor, as well as on the first floor’s left window of the right return.

The interior of the buildings has not been inspected.

The front and return area railings, including a gate to the basement, are distinguished by alternate anthemion and sword-hilt finials.

Grove Street was laid out in 1828, with construction of the west side and lower part of the east side completed by 1834. Wentworth House and No.6 Regent Street form an architectural group with No.50 Grove Street.