33-36, ALBERT SQUARE SW8

This is a row of four houses, numbered 33 to 36, situated on the east side of Albert Square. Originally designed as a symmetrical terrace with a grouping of 1, 3, and 1 houses, the original house number 37 no longer exists. The houses are three and a half storeys high and each is two or three windows wide. They are constructed of stock brick with hipped slate roofs. The facades are adorned with plentiful stucco dressings, including quoins and incised detailing to the ground floor and basement. There are banded panels and an entablature with a dentil cornice in some areas, resting on pilasters and engaged columns. A main entablature, featuring a modillion cornice and curved brackets, runs at third-floor level, with a further subsidiary cornice at second-floor level, and a top cornice with a blocking course. The sash windows, many with glazing bars, are set within moulded architraves, and feature console bracketed cornices on the first floor. Number 33 has a projecting square bay, and a grouped arrangement of first-floor windows beneath a central pediment; a similar pediment is also present on number 35. All doors, and the ground floor windows of the houses between them, are round-arched with an impost string. Balustrades are present to the areas and along the sides of the flights of six stone steps leading to the four-panel doors, each with a plain fanlight above.