5-23, Leverton Street

This is a terrace of ten houses, numbered 5 to 23, located on the west side of Leverton Street in Camden. They were built in the 18th century. The houses are constructed of painted stucco over brickwork and have slate roofs. Each house is one window wide and two rooms deep, although number 7 has a mansard roof that is not of particular architectural interest. A continuous band runs along the first floor, topped by a projecting cornice beneath the parapet. Houses 7 to 15 are punctuated by pilaster strips at the first floor level. Houses 15 to 17 and 19 to 21 are arranged in pairs, with recessed vertical bands between them. The windows are margin-light sashes, set within moulded architraves. The first-floor windows feature console brackets and anthemion cast-iron embellishments on the sills of numbers 7 to 13. The front doors are located to the left of each house, with a rectangular fanlight above, and the original door to number 13 remains. A door is also set into the left return of number 5. The interiors were not inspected, but some are noted to retain unusual plaster decoration. These terraces represent a distinctive group of painted and relatively unaltered houses, exhibiting a scale and charm uncommon in London.