Numbers 7-10 And Attached Railings

Numbers 7-10 form a terrace of four houses with attached railings, built around 1828-1832 and altered later, including mid-20th century extensions to the rear. The houses are constructed of pinkish-brown brick in English Garden Wall bond to the rear, with painted stucco facades on the front and sides, a Welsh slate roof, and cast-iron dressings.

The three-storey buildings, with basements and attics, have 12 bays arranged in a 3:3:3:3 pattern. The basement and ground floor feature horizontal rustication. A moulded band runs above the first floor to bays 7 to 9, surmounted by two pilasters extending the full height of the building. The first floor has 10-pane French windows with margin lights throughout. The second floor features a band with a pulvinated cornice and 3/6 sash windows with sills. A stepped cornice and blocking course cap the facade.

The ground floor entrances to the third and fourth bays are half-glazed doors; an unglazed door is located in the eighth bay. All doors have roll-moulded lower panels. The doors to the third and fourth bays are embellished with lion-and-wreath knockers, while the doors include overlights with glazing bars and panelled reveals, set within surrounds of engaged Doric pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice (to the fourth bay). A six-panel door with an ornate fanlight sits within a distyle Roman Doric porch with engaged pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice with guttae in the eleventh bay. Sashes in bays 1, 2, 5, and 6 have flat, rusticated arches, while bays 7 and 9 have 4-pane sashes, and bays 10 and 12 have 12-pane sashes, all with sills. Basement entrances in bays 2, 5, 8, and 11 are panelled doors. Coal cellars extend beneath the pavement. The roof is hipped to the right side, with ridge stacks. The right return features two 6/6 sashes with decorative blind boxes on the ground floor and French windows with a balcony on the first floor. The second-floor band, cornice, and blocking course continue.

The rear elevation has 6/6 and 3/6 sashes. First-floor balconies display various motifs, including rod-anthemion-and-scroll, anthemion-and-lion-mask, and anthemion-and-scroll designs.

Internally, No. 9 retains shutters to ground floor windows, an Adamesque-Rococo chimneypiece in the right-hand room, ceiling roses, an archway to a rear dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, mainly 4-panel doors, and panelled sliding doors between rooms on the first floor, along with acorn-moulded cornices.

The area railings and those adjacent to the steps feature double ovals surmounted by fleur-de-lys to Numbers 7, 8, and 10. Number 9 has lancet railings with anthemion finials to the stanchions.

The terrace was constructed as part of a complete square of stucco terraces, Clarendon Square, designed by PF Robinson. The gardens within the square were planted with trees in May 1830.