Numbers 1-6 (Consecutive) With Attached Railings And Gate Attached To Number 1

Numbers 1-6 are a terrace of six semi-detached linked villas built around 1830 by John Booth and his son, who were surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. They are located in a passageway that connects Wharton Street and Lloyd Square with Great Percy Street. The villas are constructed from multi-coloured stock bricks arranged in Flemish bond, featuring stucco dressings and a stucco pediment above each pair, although number 2 has been altered. The roofs are gabled, with Welsh slate on numbers 4 and 5 and artificial slate on the others, which are obscured by a parapet. Each villa has a brick centre stack and exhibits a fine design in a restrained Greek Revival style.

The layout includes a side-hall entrance plan for the outer linked bay of each house. The buildings are two-storeys high with a basement, featuring two windows each, including a recessed one-window entrance bay that serves as a link. Low steps lead up to a deeply recessed stucco entrance, supported by antae and an entablature, except for number 6, which has a plain stucco square opening. The entrance doors are architraved and panelled, with original doors on numbers 1, 4-6. Some doors have fluted pilaster jambs (numbers 3 and 4), a reeded surround (number 5), and rectangular overlights (numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5). The ground-floor windows include various styles: 2/2 on number 6, 6/6 on numbers 2 and 3, 6/6 with cast-iron window guards on number 1, and 8/8 sashes on numbers 4 and 5. The first-floor windows predominantly feature 2/2 sashes, with recessed balconied links that have narrower doors or sashes.

There is a plain stucco band beneath the pediments and a stucco parapet with coping or a blocking course above the first-floor recessed link. Numbers 1 and 2 have undergone extensive alterations. The terrace is complemented by attached cast-iron railings with urn finials, as well as additional Neoclassical railings with scrolled braces and an iron overthrow at the trade entrance to numbers 5 and 6. A garden gate is located to the right of number 1, with attached iron spikes over the entrance to the passageway.