Numbers 43 To 46 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 43 to 46 Lloyd Baker Street form a terrace of four semi-detached villas, linked together. They were built in 1825 on a slope leading up to Lloyd Square, by John Booth and his son, also named John, who were surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate; William Joseph Booth, another son, served as the architect. The villas are constructed of gold stock bricks in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings. Number 46’s first floor is rendered in stucco. They have artificial slate gabled roofs and brick chimney stacks. The architectural style is restrained Greek Revival.

Each house has a side-hall entrance plan to the outer linked bay. The villas are two storeys high, with a basement, and have two windows each, plus a recessed one-window entrance bay that links the houses. Number 43 has a three-window double-fronted return to Granville Street. Low steps lead to a deeply recessed stucco entrance (numbers 44-45 have been altered), with antae (flat, rectangular pillars) supporting an entablature. The doorway has a 20th-century door. Number 43’s return to Granville Street features a recessed architraved doorway flanked by stucco pilasters that carry an entablature.

The windows are architraved sashes set within arched stuccoed recesses, with stucco impost blocks and moulded archivolts. The ground floor windows are mostly 8/8 sashes, and the first-floor windows are largely 4/8 sashes, some with segmental heads. There are recessed balconied links between numbers 44 and 45, which have been enclosed; number 46 has a Gothic-style iron balustrade. A plain stucco band sits beneath the pediments, and the first-floor recessed link has a stucco parapet with stucco coping or a blocking course. Original cast-iron railings with urn finials are attached to the front.