18A, 18-28, ARLINGTON WAY

Eleven terraced houses with ground-floor shops, and one with a pub, were built between 1828 and 1829. Later alterations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, including shopfronts and a pub front around 1900. The houses, likely designed by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate, are constructed of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with wooden shop fronts and a glazed brick pub front. The roofs are hidden, and there are party-wall brick stacks. The houses have a side-hall entrance plan, providing access to the domestic upper floors. They are three storeys high with a basement, and each house originally had two windows.

The predominantly 20th-century house doors have plain jambs. The wooden shop fronts are three bays wide, featuring pilasters supporting an entablature with a fascia and projecting cornice at numbers 18-21, 23-26, and 28. The shop windows at numbers 18-25 were rebuilt around 1980, although the original entablatures were largely retained. Only the shopfront at number 26 retains a design that is similar to its original appearance, with a curved fascia, original glazed shop door on the left, a house door to the right, and a bow window in the centre. The house entrance to number 18A is located to the left of number 18. Number 22 has a carriage entrance and a house door to the left. Number 27 is the Harlequin Public House and features an etched glass door and window. Upper floors have 6/6 sash windows, and number 22 has full-length sashes with a cast-iron balcony featuring Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns on the railings. There has been significant rebuilding of the upper floors. The building has a plain brick parapet with stone coping. Numbers 29-31 were demolished after 1972 to make way for the Lillian Bayliss Theatre, which stands to the rear of Sadler's Wells.