1-15, Prince Albert Road

Street of 15 related detached and semi-detached villas on Prince Albert Road, Camden, dating from the mid-19th century. The houses were probably built by J Guerrier and P Pearse. All are finished in stucco.

No.1 is a double-fronted house with three windows, three storeys and basement. It is currently being converted to two dwellings. It has tall slab chimney-stacks on the return walls.

No.2 is double-fronted with three windows, three storeys and basement. It features a portico with console-bracketed cornice that continues around the house at first-floor level. The doorway has a fanlight and panelled door with narrow side lights. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows with margin glazing. The first floor has round-arched architraved sashes with margin glazing and keystones. The second floor has architraved sashes with a continuous sill band. The eaves project and are bracketed. Tall slab chimney-stacks appear on the return walls. The left-hand return has canted bay windows to the ground and first floors.

No.3 is similar to No.2 but has a porch with a plain band continuing around the house. The first floor has architraved sashes with margin glazing and cornices. Canted bay windows appear on the right-hand return.

No.4 originally had five windows arranged as a double-fronted house with three windows, but a two-window extension on the east side was added in 1913, designed by Sir Edward Maufe for the artist A.E. Maude. This extension contains a studio with bedrooms over. The house has three storeys and basement. It features an asymmetrically placed Doric portico with an entablature that continues around the house at first-floor level, supported by Doric pilasters. The doorway has a fanlight and panelled door. Tripartite sashes with margin glazing flank the porch; to the right are paired transom and mullion windows with margin lights. The first floor has round-arched architraved sashes with bands, keystones and margin glazing. The third floor has recessed sashes with a guttae sill string. The roof is slated and hipped with projecting bracketed eaves and tall slab chimney-stacks on the return walls. Canted bay windows appear on the left-hand return.

No.5 is double-fronted with three windows, three storeys, an attic and basement. It has an Ionic portico in antis, with the entablature continuing around the house at first-floor level. The ground-floor sashes are architraved and tripartite with margin glazing. The first floor has architraved sashes with cornices (the one above the porch having a floating cornice) and margin glazing. The second floor has architraved sashes. The eaves project and feature a dentil cornice, above which is a central rectangular dormer with an architraved Diocletian window. A tall slab chimney-stack appears on the right-hand return, with canted bay windows on the left hand.

Nos. 6 and 7 form a semi-detached pair with an irregular facade of three storeys and attics. They have four windows plus a later-19th-century two-window recessed entrance extension to the west end. No.6 has a projecting right-hand entrance bay with a round-arched entrance featuring a fanlight and panelled door. The sashes are recessed, with the second floor in shallow rectangular recesses. The first floor has casements with cast-iron balconies. A projecting cornice continues around the house. The entrance bay has a small pedimented attic with an oculus. No.7 has a projecting right-hand bay with a canted bay window with margin glazing to the ground floor and tripartite sashes to the upper floors. It features a pediment with a Diocletian attic window in the tympanum. Both have tall slab chimney-stacks.

Nos. 8 and 9 form a semi-detached pair, with No.9 having been rebuilt in facsimile following war damage and included for group value. They have three storeys and attics with a symmetrical facade of four windows plus a two-storey single-window extension to No.9. Attic dormers feature in slated mansard roofs. The outer entrance bays are slightly projecting with segmental-arched porticoes with keystones and parapets. The square-headed doorways have fanlights and panelled doors. Corinthian pilasters rise through the first and second floors, flanking recessed sashes with margin glazing. The houses are divided by paired Corinthian pilasters, either side of which are tripartite sashes with floating cornices on the first floor and a sill band continuing across the front on the second floor. A simplified entablature tops the composition. The extension has two-light windows with margin glazing.

Nos. 10 and 11 form a semi-detached pair with a symmetrical facade of three storeys and attics, two windows each. Attic dormers feature in slated mansard roofs. The entrances are in central bays, recessed to second-floor level and separated by paired Ionic columns in antis supporting a simplified entablature that continues around the building. No.10 has a round-arched doorway while No.11 has a square-headed doorway, both with patterned fanlights and panelled doors. Above are recessed sashes with margin glazing. Slightly projecting outer bays have pilasters at angles rising to support the entablature. Tripartite sashes appear throughout, with the ground floors having pilasters supporting pediments and the upper floors having consoles on mullions. The attic storey has recessed sashes with margin glazing and pilasters supporting a cornice and parapet. Tall slab chimney-stacks complete the design.

Nos. 12 and 13 form a semi-detached pair with a symmetrical facade of three storeys and attics, two windows each, plus a later single-storey single-window extension to No.13. A slightly projecting central entrance bay features a double portico with square-headed doorways, fanlights and panelled doors. The ground floors have tripartite sashes with margin glazing. Corinthian pilasters mark bays and rise through the first and second floors to support a simplified entablature with a pediment over the central bay and a blocking course over the outer bays. The central bay has recessed sashes with margin glazing to the upper floors; the outer bays have tripartite sashes with floating cornices on the first floor. Tall slab chimney-stacks are present.

Nos. 14 and 15 form a semi-detached pair with an irregular facade of three storeys and attics containing five windows, plus a late-20th-century single-storey single-window extension to No.14. No.14 has a Doric portico (originally with an Ionic portico on the return) above which are recessed sashes with margin glazing. A projecting pedimented left-hand bay features a canted bay window to the ground floor with a cast-iron veranda; the upper floors have tripartite windows with a cornice and cast-iron balcony extending to the entrance bay on the first floor and a sill string on the second floor. A pediment with a Diocletian attic window in the tympanum tops this bay. No.15 has a projecting left-hand entrance bay carried up an extra storey as a tower. It has a round-arched entrance with a fanlight and panelled door. The ground and second floors have recessed sashes with margin glazing, while the first floor has casements with cast-iron balconies. A projecting cornice runs across the facade. The additional tower storey has paired pilasters at the angles and an arcaded two-light window, topped by a simplified entablature and blocking course. Tall slab chimney-stacks are present.

The interiors were not inspected.