244-250, GRAYS INN ROAD

This is a terrace of four houses with shops, built in the early 19th century. The brickwork is yellow stock, although numbers 246 and 248 have been refronted. The terrace is three storeys high, with cellars beneath. Each house has two windows.

Number 244 features an early 19th-century wooden shopfront with a central arched window framed by half columns originally fluted and supporting the remains of a simplified entablature, though the frieze has rotted and the cornice is dilapidated. The doorways have remains of pilasters; the shop doorway has an overlight and a part-glazed door, while the house doorway is round-arched with a fanlight and panelled door. Number 246 has a mid-19th-century shopfront which has been altered, and features an entablature with a dentil cornice and a console on the right-hand side. Number 248 has an altered wooden shopfront with a splayed shop window, and a patterned metal grille to the fanlight above the doorway. Number 250 has a 20th-century shopfront.

The upper floors have gauged brick flat arches over the recessed sash windows, most of which retain their glazing bars. Number 244 has cast-iron balconies to the first-floor windows. The buildings have parapets.

The interiors have not been inspected.