16, Alwyne Place

No.16 Alwyne Place is a terraced house, dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with possible earlier elements and alterations in the early 19th century. The house is built of purple and yellow brick in Flemish bond, with red brick dressings and a stuccoed ground floor. The roof is tiled. The front of the building presents three storeys over a basement, with three bays and likely representing a later 17th or early 18th century refronting of an earlier structure. The basement and ground floor are stuccoed, the ground floor featuring banded rustication and two flat-arched windows with moulded architraves, and a band delineating the floors above. Upper floor windows have cambered arches of gauged red brick, with frames set almost flush with the wall’s outer face. The original sash windows have been replaced in the 20th century, with the first-floor central window being a replacement. A parapet tops the building. An entrance is situated within a single-storey wing, possibly dating to the 18th or early 19th centuries, though significantly reworked and connected to the screen wall of No.14. Inside, the front room on the first floor has a noteworthy wooden fireplace with an eared architrave and mantelshelf, panelled dado, architrave surrounding the door, and a dentil cornice. The back room on the first floor features a 19th-century marble fireplace with a cast-iron grate, and a cornice. The staircase has turned newel posts and stick balusters from the first half-landing up to the second floor. The back room on the second floor has a wooden fireplace with a mantel shelf of the late 18th or 19th century.