Numbers 2 To 20 And Attached Railings

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TQ2981NE GOWER STREET 798-1/99/604 (East side) 14/05/74 Nos.2-20 (Even) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GOWER STREET Nos.1-15 (odd) and Nos.2-20 (even))

GV II

Terrace of 10 houses. c1780. Darkened stock brick; all are, or show evidence of having been, tuck pointed. No.2 with stucco front. 1st floor stucco sill bands. Slated mansard roofs with dormers. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements except No.2 with 4 storeys and basement. 3 windows each. No.20 with blind 3-window return to Keppel Street. Round-arched doorways with fanlights and panelled doors. Gauged brick flat arches to 2-pane sashes, some with cast-iron window guards. Parapet. No.2: Square-headed doorway with rectangular fanlight and panelled double door. Ground floor windows, with glazing bars forming borders, in shallow segmental-arched recesses. 1st floor casements with console-bracketed cornices and continuous cast-iron balcony. Plain band at 3rd floor level and parapet. INTERIOR: with 2 painted ceilings and door surrounds attributed to Misses Rhoda and Agnes Garrett. No.4: doorway with fluted head and jambs, sidelights, stucco key and impost blocks. Radial fanlight. No.6: doorway with pilaster-jambs, fluted head and impost blocks. No.8: doorway with panelled jambs, fluted head and enriched impost blocks. No.10: doorway with stucco architrave and pilaster-jambs. No.12: doorway with stucco architrave. Nos 14-20: doorways with pilaster-jambs carrying cornice heads. No.20 with patterned fanlight. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn or torch flambe finials to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.2 was the home to Misses Rhoda and Agnes Garrett who, c1875, set up practice as interior decorators and published a book "Suggestions for Home Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture". This was also the residence of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, pioneer of women's suffrage. (GLC plaque). No.10 was the residence of Lady Ottoline Morrell, literary hostess & patron of the arts (GLC plaque).

Listing NGR: TQ2985681786