17, 17A AND 19, JERDAN PLACE SW6

Three semi-detached houses at Nos. 17, 17A, and 19 Jerdan Place, with No. 17 originally containing a shop, and Nos. 17A and 19 now used as a doctor's surgery, were built in the mid-18th century and refaced in the early 19th century. The first floor and parapet were subsequently refaced in the late 20th century. No. 17A is an early 18th-century house of single room depth, enclosed to the rear by No. 17, to the front by No. 19, and to the right by an early 19th-century rear extension.

The houses are painted brick with rendered ground floors, No. 17 featuring a brick dado. They have complex tiled roofs; No. 17 has a double pitch, with the front part extending across No. 19 and around the right-hand return. No. 17A has a hipped roof of old tiles and a central stack.

No. 17 is two storeys high with two windows. It features a good early 19th-century wooden shopfront with a projecting window (altered glazing) and a moulded stallboard. A projecting cornice sits above the fascia, and a partly glazed entrance door is located to the right. The first floor has late 20th-century metal casements. A parapet tops the building. The shop interior retains virtually complete original fittings, including mirrors, cupboards, marble counters, a dado rail, and a stone slab floor. A panelled wall conceals the staircase to the first floor. An early 19th-century wooden door frame with a fluted surround, carved stars on stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a shallow pediment leads into a back room.

Nos. 17A and 19 are two storeys high with five windows. A central main entrance leads to a panelled door, and there is a blocked panelled entrance door to the left, which once led to No. 17A. The ground floor has recessed sashes, with the one to the left of the entrance dating back to the early 19th century. The first floor has late 20th-century metal casements. A parapet tops the building. A rear extension to No. 19 includes an early 19th-century unhorned Gothic sash window with pointed lights. The interior retains its original form plan. The hall features an early 19th-century modillion cornice and moulded dado rail, along with a dog-leg staircase with a moulded closed string, turned balusters, and a chamfered newel with a ball finial. Six-panel doors with moulded frames are present throughout. A first-floor front room on the left has an 18th-century mantlepiece and a doorway to the left into a shallow cupboard with a blocked doorway into a rear room, which is two steps lower than the front. A rear right-hand room contains a fragment of early 18th-century square panelling. The early 18th-century core of No. 17A represents a rare survival of a vernacular building from Waltham Green’s rural past. These houses stand on the former site of Waltham Green, with Jerdan Place being the market place until 1877.

Nos. 17, 17A, and 19 form a group with Nos. 9-15 Jerdan Place.