Number 9 And Attached Railings And Gate

Number 9 is a terraced house, likely built around 1728 by R Hughes, and later refronted in the late 18th century in a Georgian style. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and decorated cross-shaped tie plates, with a tiled roof and dormers.

The exterior is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, featuring a double-fronted facade with five windows. A doorcase, possibly reused from a former entrance at the east end, has a bracketed hood and an architraved doorway with a patterned fanlight over an enclosed panelled door. The windows are flush-frame sashes with exposed boxing, set within gauged red brick flat arches. A plain brick band runs along the first floor level and there is a parapet with a moulded brick band.

The interior is notable for its double-plan design and central open-well staircase. Each half of the house has front and rear rooms, the latter with closets. The hallway is characterised by full-height panelling with a dado rail and box cornice, with Tuscan pilasters indicating its broadening into the staircase hall. A closed-string staircase has turned balusters, moulded newels, and ramped handrails within the fully-panelled staircase hall. The front room on the ground floor (left of the door) has full-height panelling and an early 18th-century fireplace; the room to its rear has some panelling, a box cornice, and a dado rail. The rooms to the right of the hallway are also fully panelled and include Tuscan pilasters into a former alcove, now separated by a partition and door into a rear room with a closet. The first-floor front room extends the full width of the house and has bolection-moulded fireplaces at either end, along with full-height panelling, box cornices and shutters. The rear rooms and closets are also panelled, featuring ovolo mouldings and box cornices. The second floor has some horizontal boarding and cupboards. A stick baluster stair and matchboard panelling lead down to the basement.

Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials and lamp-holders flank a wrought-iron gateway with a scrolled heart design, including an overthrow and gate.

Historically, the house served as a Girls' Reformatory School in the 1860s and the Field Lane Industrial School for Girls in the 1890s.