2-16, Copenhagen Street

A row of eight terraced houses, numbers 2 to 16, with a shop at number 2, was built in the 1820s and 1830s. A late 19th-century shopfront was added to number 2. The houses are constructed of yellow and brown stock bricks in a Flemish bond pattern, with banded stucco to the ground floor of numbers 4 to 16 (plain stucco to number 8), and plain stucco to the upper floors of numbers 8 to 10. Number 6 features red and blue gauged brick flat arches and string courses to the upper floors. The roofs are hidden behind a parapet, with brick party-wall stacks. The design incorporates a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase.

The houses are three storeys high with a basement, and generally have two windows per front (number 2 has a triangular-shaped front with a 2:1:1 window arrangement around the corner). Low steps lead to an elliptical arched entrance to the right bay. Number 2 has a house door to the left bay and a covered sash window to the right in Copenhagen Street. The corner shopfront has a recessed entrance flanked by late 19th-century shop windows with altered 20th-century glazing, extending into Copenhagen and Cloudesley Roads. Pilasters support a curved, overhanging fascia with end consoles and a projecting cornice. The other doorways have pilaster jambs (numbers 2 to 10) and fluted quarter-column jambs (numbers 12 to 16), supporting corniced heads, panelled doors (numbers 4, 6, 8, and 10 dating from the 20th century), and plain fanlights (number 10 having curved and radial glazing bars, and numbers 14 and 16 having patterned designs).

The ground-floor windows are segmental arched 6/6 sashes (number 2’s covered by 20th-century boarding), with numbers 6, 8, and 16 having margin lights. Number 6 has gauged brick flat arches to the upper floors. The first floor has a blind window above the shop entrance at number 2. The upper floor sashes are 6/6 (numbers 2 to 10 and 16), and 2/2 (numbers 12 to 14), with a stucco sill band. Numbers 8 to 12 have individual iron balconies with Vitruvian scroll and palmette or Gothic style pattern to the iron railings – other balconies are missing. Second-floor sashes are 6/6 (number 2's left window facing Copenhagen Street, numbers 4 to 8 and 16) and 2/2 (numbers 2’s right window and corner window facing Copenhagen Street and 12), with some 20th-century replacements at numbers 8 and 14. The houses have a plain parapet with stone coping.