Belsize The Close

Two houses, mainly in three builds, dating from the early to mid-19th century, with some alterations. Number 1 is stucco rendered, originally lined to resemble ashlar, and has a slate roof. It features red brick end stacks. Rusticated rendered quoins mark the corners. The house is two storeys high with a four-window range. The ground floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor windows are horned sashes, all located beneath rendered hood moulds. A doorcase, composed of rendered pilasters supporting a cornice on console brackets, frames a four-panel door which is set back from the doorcase.

Number 3 comprises a north-facing block and an attached range to the south. The north block is rendered with a mansard slate roof and a gault brick stack on the right-hand side. It is two storeys high with attics. The north facade has two bays, featuring a blocked doorway beneath a semicircular moulded hood, a sash window with glazing bars beneath a square hood, and two first-floor horned sashes with glazing bars, all beneath a continuous hood that returns to the right-hand gable. A moulded eaves cornice also returns to the gable wall. The west gable wall has a four-panel door flanked by a small six-pane window. There are blocked windows beneath hoods to the first and ground floors, and a six-pane window above the eaves. An attached range to the south has been refurbished; it is rendered with a shallow-pitch slate roof and a squat red brick stack to the rear. This range is two storeys high and has three bays, the bay to the left being gabled. On the ground floor, the left bay has a canted bay window with small-paned sashes, a central horned sash with glazing bars, and a right-hand garage entrance. The first floor has three sashes with glazing bars, the leftmost of which is original.

A brick warehouse block to the east of Number 1 is not of special interest and is not included in this description.