Numbers 43-55 (Odd) And Attached Railings

Numbers 43-55 (odd) and attached railings are a group of seven terraced houses dating to 1824, with a mid-19th century shopfront added to number 53. The houses were designed by William Chadwell Mylne, who was Surveyor for the New River Estate. They are constructed of yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, with banded stucco to the ground floor and stucco dressings. The roofs are obscured, and there are brick party-wall stacks. The houses feature a side-hall entrance plan, with number 53 incorporating a ground-floor shop and side-hall entrance to the upper floors. There are four storeys to each house, except for number 43, which has three storeys, and all have a basement. Each house has two windows. Steps lead to round-arched entrances (except at numbers 51 and 53), with fluted quarter-column jambs (plain at numbers 51 and 53) supporting a corniced head, a fanlight (patterned at numbers 47 and 49, and with an overlight at number 51), and original panelled doors to numbers 45-51 and 55. The ground-floor windows are 2/2 and 6/6 sash windows. Number 53 retains much of its original shopfront, featuring a wide 19th-century panelled shop/house door to the right, and altered 19th-century shop windows to the left, behind a fascia and projecting cornice with 20th-century alterations. The upper floors have 6/6 and 3/3 sash windows within gauged-brick flat arches. A stucco sill band runs beneath the full-length sash windows on the first floor, which are set in arched brick recesses. Cast-iron balconies are present at numbers 45 and 55. Some rebuilding of the upper floors has occurred, and a plaque at the second-floor level between numbers 47 and 49 is inscribed 'Thompson's Terrace 1824'. The building has a plain brick parapet with stone coping; numbers 47 and 49 have a stucco band to the parapet. Attached cast-iron railings are topped with urn finials. The terrace was originally known as Thompson’s Terrace.