Numbers 2-17 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 2 to 17 Claremont Square form a terrace of 16 houses built in 1821 as part of the square’s development, designed by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor to the New River Estate. The houses were restored around 1970 by Andrews Sherlock, Architects. The construction is of beige stock bricks laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco ground floors. The roofs are artificial slate (except for number 16 which has Welsh slate) and have mansard form with dormers, and brick party-wall stacks. The layout follows a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase.

Each house has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with two windows facing the square. Steps lead to the entrance, which is on the right of number 17 and on returns to Cruickshank Street. Doorways (numbers 12, 14, 16, and 17) are architraved and feature fluted column jambs; numbers 12 and 14 have panelled pilaster jambs and console brackets, number 13 has fluted pilaster jambs, and number 17 has an altered doorway. They are topped with a modillioned corniced head (numbers 13 and 15 are new), and have original four-panelled doors (numbers 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, and 15) or a six-panelled door (number 16), with the others being 20th-century replacements. Fanlights are patterned above numbers 11 to 16, with plain fanlights to numbers 5 to 6, 8 to 10, and plain fanlights. The window sashes at ground floor level are mostly 2/2 (numbers 4, 7, 12, 14), 3/3 (number 2), 6/6, or 8/8 (numbers 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16), with number 14 having a Rococo-style cast-iron window guard and number 17 featuring architraved windows. Gauged brick arches top the windows on the upper floors. The first floor has a stucco sill band and full-length 6/6 sashes set in arched recesses, linked by stucco impost bands; number 17’s first-floor sash windows are 4-light casements with rectangular overlights. Iron-bracketed balconies with iron railings incorporating diamond, Greek key, circular, Gothic, spiderweb, anthemion and Vitruvian scroll patterns are present. The second floor has 6/6 sashes. Plain parapets with stone coping run along the top of the terrace. Number 16 has a richly moulded cornice above the second floor and a full-height third storey with 3/3 sashes. There is noticeable patching and rebuilding to the upper storeys. Attached iron area railings are present. The terrace was originally known as Myddelton Terrace.