Numbers 32-42 (Even) And Attached Railings

Numbers 32-42 (even) and attached railings comprise a row of six terraced houses, one of which incorporates a shop named ‘Lloyd’s Dairy’, situated on the east side of a sloping hill leading towards Claremont Square from the south. The houses were built between 1828 and 1829 by William Chadwell Mylne, who was Surveyor for the New River Estate. They are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco to the ground floors of numbers 40 and 42, a wooden shopfront, and stucco dressings. Number 42 has a Welsh slate mansard roof, while the roofs of the other houses are obscured. Brick party-wall stacks are present.

The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan, with the exception of number 42, which features a shop. Each house has three storeys and a basement, with two windows each, plus one window to the left-hand return wall in River Street. A round-arched entrance is present at number 42, featuring impressive side entrance to the return wall in River Street, flanked by attached Doric columns supporting an entablature and blocking course. The entrance has fluted 1/4 column jambs, a corniced head, a fanlight (with patterned detailing at numbers 32, 36, 38, and 42), and a 20th-century door. The ground floors have 6/6 sash windows with curved and radial glazing bars and margin lights, except at number 42.

Number 42’s mid to late 19th-century double shopfront is articulated by console bracketed pilasters and supports a curved fascia featuring painted glass lettering proclaiming ‘Dairy Farmer LLOYD & SON High Class Dairy Produce’. A prostyle Doric portico leads to a corner entrance with a projecting curved fascia. Original panelled shop-doors are located in the corner recess, surmounted by a wooden rectangular overpanel, and flanked by three-light shop windows with elliptical tops and panels beneath. Upper floors have 6/6 sash windows within gauged-brick flat arches. A 1st-floor stucco sill band sits beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses linked by stucco impost banding, with individual cast-iron balconies featuring Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns to the railings. Some rebuilding of the upper floors has occurred; stucco panels are present over the 2nd-floor sashes at number 42. A plain brick parapet with a brick string course and stone coping tops the building. Attached cast-iron railings have ball and disc finials.

The interior of Lloyd’s Dairy (number 42) features a ground floor with fine early 20th-century grained and panelled oak counters with marble tops, some refrigerated ‘made to measure’ counters, a 1950s Frigideric freezer, and period shelving. Lloyd’s Dairy began operating in 1914, after previously serving as an auctioneer's since at least 1861, including a shop from 1921. It is run by the Lloyd family and is considered one of the finest surviving dairies.