23, Gloucester Crescent

No. 23, Gloucester Crescent is a mid-19th century house with a return front, forming a symmetrical end bay to Nos. 37-43 Inverness Street. The house is constructed of stucco with slated mansard roofs behind gabled fronts featuring narrow bargeboards. It is three stories high with a basement and has two windows. The right-hand side features a recessed, prostyle portico with a panelled door and overlight. The right-hand ground floor window is an architraved sash with a console bracketed cornice, while the left-hand side has a canted bay. The first-floor sashes have lugged architraves and lugged sills. A second-floor cornice is present, and the second-floor windows are round-arched and architraved with sill bands. The return front has channelled stucco on the ground floor with blocked windows. The ground floor features a truncated tripartite sash with enriched brackets to the mullions, and the first floor has a similar full-size sash with a console bracketed pediment. A plain first-floor band runs across. The house has a moulded cornice with a parapet featuring arcaded balustrading. The interior has not been inspected.