Numbers 46-63 And Attached Railings

Numbers 46-63 and attached railings form a terrace of 18 houses, creating the southern half of a crescent, dating from approximately 1809-11. They were designed and built by James Burton. The houses are now largely occupied as hotels, including the Avalon Hotel (numbers 46 and 47), Crescent Hotel (numbers 49 and 50), Euro Hotel (number 53), Mentone Hotel (numbers 54 and 55), Devon Hotel (number 56), Avonmore Hotel (number 57), George Hotel (numbers 58-60), and Harlingford Hotel (numbers 61-63). The construction utilizes darkened stock brick, with evidence of tuck pointing, rusticated stucco ground floors (some gloss painted), and a stucco cornice marking the third-floor level.

The houses are four storeys high with basements. They have two or three windows each, with the central four and end three houses projecting forward. The doorways, where original, have round arches, reeded jambs, cornice heads, fanlights (some with patterned glass), and panelled doors. Doorways on the returns to Burton Place and Marchmont Street are present; number 46 features a prostyle Doric portico (four columns, three blind), and number 63 has a rusticated stucco porch with a smaller doorway to the right. Ground-floor windows are round-arched, set within shallow, round-arched recesses. Gauged brick flat arches, predominantly reddened, frame the recessed sash windows. The first floor of the central projecting bay has casement windows, one with geometrically patterned glazing to the top light. Continuous cast-iron balconies are found on all first-floor windows. Parapets top the buildings. The interiors have not been inspected. Attached cast-iron railings, topped with baluster finials, are present to the areas.