Numbers 2 To 20 And Attached Railings

This is a terrace of ten houses, numbers 2 to 20, built around 1780 in Camden. The houses are primarily of darkened stock brick, with number 2 having a stucco facade. The buildings are three storeys high with attics and basements, except for number 2, which has four storeys and a basement. Each house originally featured three windows. Number 20 has a blind return elevation facing Keppel Street.

The external appearance is consistent, with round-arched doorways, originally containing panelled doors and fanlights. Gauged brick flat arches frame the two-pane sash windows, some of which retain cast-iron window guards. A parapet tops the buildings. Number 2 has a square-headed doorway with a rectangular fanlight and panelled double door. Ground floor windows are set in shallow segmental-arched recesses with glazing bars forming borders. The first floor features casements with console-bracketed cornices and a continuous cast-iron balcony. A plain band runs along the third floor level.

Interiors include painted ceilings and door surrounds attributed to Misses Rhoda and Agnes Garrett. Number 4 features a doorway with a fluted head and jambs, sidelights, stucco key and impost blocks, and a radial fanlight. Number 6 has a doorway with pilaster jambs, a fluted head, and enriched impost blocks. Number 8 displays panelled jambs, a fluted head, and enriched impost blocks. Number 10 has a doorway with a stucco architrave and pilaster jambs. Number 12’s doorway is of simpler stucco architrave design. Numbers 14 through 20 feature doorways with pilaster jambs carrying corniced heads, with number 20 having a patterned fanlight.

Attached cast-iron railings with urn or torch finials mark the areas.

Historically, number 2 was the home of Misses Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, interior decorators who published "Suggestions for Home Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture" around 1875. It was also the residence of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a women's suffrage pioneer. Number 10 was the residence of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a literary hostess and patron of the arts.