Numbers 2-24 And Attached Railings

A terrace of twelve houses, numbers 2 to 24 (even), along Calthorpe Street, built circa 1820 to 1826 by N Stallwood. Numbers 2 and 4 were refronted after 1850. The terrace extends to include numbers 238A and 238B Gray’s Inn Road. The houses are four storeys high with basements, and each has two windows.

Numbers 2 and 4 are constructed of yellow stock brick with stucco rusticated quoins and dressings. The ground floor has rusticated stucco with a cornice and a plain band at the first-floor sill level. A plain stucco band runs at the second-floor sill level, and a cornice sits at the third-floor sill level. The third floor features stucco pilasters at the angles, supporting a stucco entablature with a blocking course. Number 2 slightly projects and includes a two-window return to Gray's Inn Road. The entrance to Number 2 is on Gray’s Inn Road, featuring a 20th-century round-arched door. Number 4 has a round-arched doorway with vermiculated, rusticated dressings, a reeded surround, a fanlight, and a panelled door. Windows are sash windows, with architraves on the first and second floors; the first floor has console-bracketed cornices.

Number 238 Gray’s Inn Road is a single-storey projection forming the rear of Number 2 Calthorpe Street and is constructed of rusticated stucco with two windows. A central round-arched entrance has vermiculated voussoirs, impost bands, double part-glazed doors, and a fanlight, flanked by round-arched windows.

Numbers 6 to 24 are of yellow stock brick with evidence of tuck pointing. They have a stucco sill band on the first floor and a cornice on the third floor. The left-hand end bays (numbers 23 and 24) and the central bays (numbers 10 to 16) slightly project. Round-arched ground-floor openings are present, and doorways have reeded surrounds, cornice-heads, patterned fanlights (except numbers 12 and 14), and panelled doors; the doorhead of Number 6 has a Greek fret pattern. Ground-floor windows have pointed lights, except Number 24 which has margin lights. Gauged brick flat arches define the recessed sashes on the upper floors. Parapets top the building, and Number 6 has a lead rainwater head and pipe.

The interiors have not been inspected.

Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials define the areas. Number 20 was once the residence of WR Lethaby, an architect, as marked by a GLC plaque.