34-37, PERCY STREET

A group of four terraced houses built between 1766 and 1770, with a significant refronting in the 1950s. The houses are constructed of Flemish bond brick, with a mansard slate roof featuring a brick ridge, end stacks, and dormers. They have three storeys and attics, with an eleven-window front. The front of No.34 has a stucco semicircular arched architrave with a fanlight above a mid-18th century six-panelled door. Later 20th-century doors are found at Nos.35 and 36, framed by pilasters; No.37 has an early 19th-century panelled door within an early 19th-century reeded architrave. The windows are 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and 9-pane sashes on the second floor, all set within gauged red brick flat arches, with plain storey bands. There is a cornice and blocking course at the top of the front elevation.

The interior of No.36 retains significant 18th-century features, including a mid-18th-century open-well staircase with a fine wrought-iron balustrade, panelled doors set within moulded architraves, and enriched cornicing on the ground and first floors. The front room on the first floor has a moulded dado rail and a pair of mid-18th-century double doors with original hinges that open into a rear room, which contains an 18th-century fireplace with a central swag and fluted frieze. Nos.36 and 37 also have mid-18th-century moulded skirtings and dado rails, as well as early 19th-century open-well staircases with stick balusters and marble fireplaces. No.34 retains similar mid-18th-century doors and cornicing. The interior of No.35 has not been inspected.