Numbers 46 And 48 And Attached Railings And Garden Gates

Numbers 46 and 48 are semi-detached villas built around 1841. They are constructed from yellow stock bricks arranged in Flemish bond, featuring a stucco ground floor and decorative elements. The villas have a hipped roof with projecting eaves and central brick stacks. The layout follows a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase.

These three-storey buildings, which also have basements, each feature two windows. The ground-floor bays are defined by stylised rounded pilasters topped with paterae, and there is a horizontal row of paterae above the entrance and sash windows. Steps lead up to a deeply recessed entrance porch on the outer bay, flanked by stone sphinxes and obelisks on a stucco balustrade, although the obelisks are missing from number 46 and from the left side balustrade of number 48, and one sphinx is missing from the left side of number 48. The doorway has pilaster jambs supporting a corniced head, with an original four-panelled studded door at number 46 (number 48 has a 20th-century door) and a rectangular overlight.

Both villas feature 6/6 sash windows throughout, with ground-floor sashes having margin lights and a recessed stucco panel below. The upper floor windows are adorned with stylised architraves decorated with paterae. The first floor includes a moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron window guards in a Neoclassical style with a palmette motif.

The properties also have attached linked garden gates in the same style, with iron guards above, and cast-iron area railings. In 1925, the writer Arnold Bennett noted in his diary the remarkable sphinxes and obelisks in front of these houses, highlighting their architectural significance.