42-48, Monmouth Street

Nos. 42-48 Monmouth Street is a terrace of four houses with later shops, built around 1792-1793. The buildings are constructed of brown stock brick and feature slate mansard roofs with dormers.

The exterior consists of three storeys, attics, and basements, with two windows for each house. Nos. 42 and 44 have late 19th century wooden shopfronts with pilasters and panelled house doors that include fanlights. Nos. 42 and 48 have 20th century shopfronts. The upper floors are adorned with gauged brick segmental arches above recessed two and four-pane sash windows. The terrace has a coped parapet, and the rear elevations include wall stacks, two of which have angled flues and chimney surrounds, as well as sashes with gate stops.

Inside, the houses feature closed string staircases with square section balusters, moulded handrails, and simple Doric newels. The top landing newels have additional Doric colonnette details where the handrails intersect. All interiors include moulded wood architraves. No. 42 has an alcove that forms a glazed china cabinet in the front room. No. 44 features an 18th century marble fireplace on the first floor, a cornice and late 18th century fireplace on the second floor, and another late 18th century fireplace on the third floor. No. 46 has plain dado panelling and a matching door architrave, along with a late 18th century moulded plaster cornice in the first floor front room. No. 48 has a panelled dado in the front first floor room and a later 18th century corner fireplace with a dentil cornice in the rear left room.

Historically, these houses maintain the scale and plot size, as well as reused features from earlier houses on the site that were erected by Thomas Neale.