Numbers 40-60 and Attached Railings

This is a terrace of eleven houses, Numbers 40-60 (even), with an attached shop at Number 40, built in the mid-19th century. The houses are constructed of yellow stock brick with rusticated stucco on the ground floors. They have a continuous stucco cornice and blocking course, which is stepped back at numbers 40, 50, and 60. Some houses have mansard roofs with dormers. The terrace is three storeys high, with attics and basements. Each house has two windows. The doorways feature stucco pilasters supporting an entablature, with pilaster-jambs and cornice-heads above panelled doors and overlights. The first-floor windows have architraves and console-bracketed cornices, as well as cast-iron balconies. Number 40 has a timber shopfront on a splayed corner with pilasters supporting an entablature and a projecting cornice; the shop window has been altered, but retains a panelled dado. There is a two-window return. The interiors have not been inspected. Attached to the front of the terrace are cast-iron railings with cone finials to the areas. The poet Dylan Thomas lived at Number 54 in 1951-2, as evidenced by a GLC plaque; the garden previously contained a Romany caravan.