Numbers 5 To 24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 5 to 24 Wharton Street form a terrace of 20 semi-detached villas, built in 1832 as part of a development on a hillside laid out by John Booth and his son, surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. The villas are constructed of gold-coloured brick in a Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and pediments over each pair. Roofs are a mix of Welsh slate (on numbers 6, 10, and 12), artificial slate, and obscured parapets; brick or stucco rendered stacks are centrally positioned. Each villa’s design incorporates a side-hall entrance plan in the outer linked bay. The architecture is in a restrained Greek Revival style.

The buildings are two storeys high, with basements, and each has two windows, including recessed single-window entrance bays acting as links. Low steps lead to deeply recessed stucco entrances flanked by antae, supporting an entablature surmounted by 20th-century reproduction iron balcony railings. The entrances have architraved doorcases, containing either a pair of six-panelled doors or a single four or six-panelled door. Windows are architraved sashes; the ground floor predominantly features six-over-six sashes with margin lights, except for numbers 7 to 10, 12, 14, 21, and 24, which have eight-over-eight sashes. First-floor windows are generally eight-over-eight sashes, except for numbers 18 to 20, 22, 23, which feature six-over-six sashes with margin lights, and numbers 23 and 24 which have cast-iron Neo-Classical window guards in a palmette pattern. First-floor recessed links include narrower doors and original sashes. A plain stucco band sits beneath the pediments, topped by a stucco parapet with stone coping or a blocking course to the first-floor recessed links. Attached iron railings are present.