Numbers 12-16 (Even) And Attached Railings

Numbers 12 to 16 Great Percy Street consist of three terraced houses built around 1840 to 1843. They were likely designed by William Chadwell Mylne for the New River Estate. The houses are constructed of gold and brown stock bricks in a Flemish bond pattern, with a stucco ground floor featuring channelled details and stucco dressings. Number 12 has a Welsh slate mansard roof with dormers, while the roofs of numbers 14 and 16 are hidden behind a parapet.

The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan. Number 12 is three storeys high with a basement and attic, whereas numbers 14 and 16 are four storeys high, each with two windows. A single step leads to the ground floor entrance on the left, which features pilaster jambs supporting a corniced head, a rectangular overlight with margin lights, and an original four-panelled door. The ground floor windows are 6/6 sashes. A stucco sill band marks the first floor, where the full-length 6/6 architraved sashes are topped with console-bracketed cornices and feature coupled cast-iron balconies with railings patterned with palmettes. Gauged brick flat arches top the 6/6 sashes on the second floor, and the 3/6 sashes on the third floor. Numbers 14 and 16 also have a stucco sill band on the third floor. Number 12 has a stucco parapet with stone coping. The stucco cornice is cut back from numbers 14 and 16, and there’s a stucco blocking course. Attached iron railings are present.