NUMBERS 2-16, 22-34, 36A AND 36B AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

Park Village East: Street of 12 semi-detached and 4 detached villas

This street, built 1825–36, was designed and laid out by John Nash and his assistants for the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues. Park Village East and West were first sketched by Nash in 1823 as developments of small independent houses at the edge of Regent's Park, and they had great influence on the development of the Victorian middle-class suburb. Both villages originally backed on to the Cumberland Basin arm of the Regent's Canal (constructed 1813–16 to service Cumberland Market, filled in 1942–3). The east side of the street was partly demolished when the railway cutting was widened around 1900–6. The original Nos 18 & 20 were demolished following damage in World War II.

The surviving buildings form a picturesque series of two and three storey stucco detached villas of varying architectural styles.

Nos 2 & 4 are a pair in Tudor-Gothic style, two storeys with attics and slated roofs with dormers. Each has a symmetrical façade of three windows flanked by projecting wings containing chimney breasts with polygonal stacks fronting the road and slit windows. Both have square-headed windows with two pointed lights and hood moulds, with deeply projecting eaves and gables with half-hipped roofs and finials. No.2 has a stucco porch with trellis and a pointed window with stained glass; No.4 has a trellis porch to a part-glazed door. No.2's right-hand return features a bay window rising through ground and first floor, and to its right a large bowed bay with cast-iron veranda and three square-headed windows with pointed lights to ground and first floor, topped by a conical roof with dormer. No.4's garden front has an octagonal tower with crenellated parapet and a lead ogee roof with ball finial. Both have attached cast-iron railings; No.2 retains a wrought-iron candelabra lamp supported by four griffin-type creatures at its entrance.

Nos 6 & 8 are a symmetrical pair in Italianate or Swiss style, three storeys with stucco and plain stucco bands at floor levels and central bays with stucco quoins. They have transverse pitched and slated roofs with deep eaves and enriched slab chimney-stacks. The composition consists of a central block of three windows and two storey entrance wings of one window each, slightly recessed. Entrances are on the returns in wooden trellis porches. Square-headed casements have cast-iron balconies to the ground floor; the central first floor window has a blind. The second floor features a blind arcade of five arches, with the two outer ones pierced for windows. Both have attached cast-iron railings with urn finials.

Nos 10 & 12 are a symmetrical pair in Regency style, two storeys with semi-basement, slate roofs with low pitched hipped form, bracketed eaves and eaves valances, and enriched chimney-stacks. The composition consists of a central block of two windows and recessed entrance wings of one window each. Wooden trellis porches lead to panelled doors with sidelights and overlights, with tripartite sashes above. The central block has tripartite sashes; the first floor has lugs to sills. Both have attached cast-iron railings to areas.

No.14 is a detached villa in stucco with a slated pitched roof and deeply projecting bracketed eaves. Tall rectangular chimney-stacks are set diagonally on the end walls. The composition is two storeys with three windows, a two storey extension of one window to the north, and a single storey gabled extension of one window to the south. A central stucco entrance portico with panelled double wooden doors, segmental-headed fanlight, entablature and blocking course occupies the front. Four-centred arched casements are used throughout ground and upper floors. A single storey later extension is on the left, and a two-storey extension on the right.

No.16 is a detached villa in stucco with a slated pitched roof with boxed out eaves. It is two storeys with three windows in the centre, a one window recessed wing to the north, and a single storey porch extension to the south. A square-headed, architraved doorway with wooden panelled door, overlight and bracketed cornice over occupies the front. The cornice and blocking course continue to the extension. The central block has a plain stucco first floor sill band. Architraved sashes are used throughout. It has attached cast-iron railings on a low brick wall.

Nos 22 & 24 (Sussex Cottage and Albany Cottage) are a pair in rusticated stucco with plain stucco first floor band and first floor window bays. They have low pitched slated roofs with deeply projecting bracketed eaves, and gables on front and south elevations forming pediments. A centrally positioned large slab chimney-stack is located between them. Both are two storeys with four windows. No.22 has a side entrance in a porch; No.24 has a front porch, both with panelled wooden doors and fanlights. Tripartite ground floor sashes are employed. The names of the cottages are inscribed on the first floor band. Architraved sashes serve the first floor. The front pediment has a blind oculus in its tympanum. The left-hand return features a blind lunette in its tympanum and a tripartite first floor window.

Nos 26 & 28 (Piercefield Cottage and Wyndcliff Cottage) are a pair in classic style with stucco, low pitched slated roofs with deeply projecting bracketed eaves. A centrally positioned large slab chimney-stack has flat roofed, slated penthouse additions on either side. Both are two storeys with attics and consist of a two window centre and single window projecting staircase wings. Entrances are in pedimented porches on the returns, with panelled wooden doors and fanlights. The wings have round-headed, architraved windows with margin glazing in shallow round-arched architraved recesses, which are inscribed with the names of the cottages and feature balustraded projections. An entablature at impost level continues across the recessed front to form a shallow loggia with trellis piers. Tripartite sashes serve the ground and first floors.

No.30 is a detached villa in stucco, two storeys with three windows. Architraved round-arched ground floor openings are linked by moulded bands at impost level. A central doorway with wooden panelled door and radial fanlight occupies the front. Sashes with margin glazing are used to the ground floor; the first floor has architraved sashes. A cornice and blocking course complete the façade. Prominent chimney-stacks are located on the end walls. It has attached cast-iron railings with urn finials.

Nos 32 & 34 are double fronted pair in stucco with pitched slated roofs with projecting eaves. A centrally positioned slab chimney-stack is located between them. The centre is gabled with four windows and is three storeys; the recessed wings are one window each with one storey and contain entrances. Architraved doorways with bracketed cornices, fanlights and wooden panelled doors occupy the recessed wings. A plain stucco first floor sill band runs across the façade. Architraved casements are used throughout; the second floor employs round-arched forms.

Nos 36A & 36B comprise a detached villa in stucco with a slated pitched roof and gables over three first floor windows and first floor windows on the right hand return. It is two storeys with four windows, and has an octagonal three storey wing overlooking the garden. An asymmetrically placed entrance of a panelled door with overlight is located on the façade. Ground floor windows are square-headed four-pane sashes (the left hand one blind). To the right is a chimney breast rising from the ground floor. A plain stucco band runs at first floor level. Three pointed arch four-pane sashes are placed under gables with scalloped wooden bargeboards and pointed finials.

The interiors have not been inspected.