Numbers 70-90 (Even) And Attached Railings

Numbers 70-90 (even) and their attached railings comprise eleven terraced houses dating to 1828-1829, designed by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. They are constructed of yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, with banded stucco to the ground floor of numbers 76-78 and 90, and stucco dressings. The roofs are hidden by chimneys of party-wall brick. The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan and are generally three storeys high, with a basement, except for number 76 which is four storeys. Each house originally had two windows, although number 90 has a one-storey stucco portico extension. Steps lead up to entrances topped by round arches, except for numbers 70-72 which have different treatment. The architraved doorways to numbers 76-82 and 88-90 have fluted column jambs, while number 74 has a doorway with quarter-columns, and the remaining doorways have pilaster jambs. There is an elaborate corniced head above the entrances to numbers 76-90, with a fanlight – patterned in several cases – and an original panelled door to numbers 88-90. The ground floor windows are 6/6 sash windows; numbers 74-88 have round-arched sashes set in a recess. Numbers 70-72 have been altered to create shopfronts, number 70 with a wooden shopfront featuring an entablature, projecting cornice and large-paned shop windows, and number 72 with an altered late 19th-century shopfront. Gauged-brick flat arches top the 6/6 sash windows on the upper floors. A stucco sill band runs beneath the full-length sash windows on the first floor, these windows being set in arched brick recesses linked by stucco impost banding, and accompanied by individual cast-iron balconies with spiderweb pattern to the railings – except for numbers 70-72. Some rebuilding of the upper floors has occurred. The houses feature a plain brick parapet with stone coping. Attached cast-iron railings have urn finials.