22-24 Brixton Road

A pair of houses dating from the early 19th century, with later extensions, located on the west side of Brixton Road.

The houses are constructed from brown stock brick with slate roofs and brick chimneystacks. Both are rectangular on plan with rear extensions, three storeys plus basements, though No.24 also has an attic extension.

No.22 is four bays wide and three storeys high. The two left-hand bays reflect the original arrangement, with two segmental window openings to each floor. The windows are tallest on the piano nobile, where they have iron balustrades, and shortest on the second floor. The two right-hand bays represent a slightly later extension. The front doorway is positioned to the left, set within a round-headed opening with a stucco architrave. To the right is a single-storey, deeply-projecting canted bay with a flat roof. The first floor of this bay has a single window, and the second floor has a pair, mimicking the arrangement of the left-hand bays. The front door and all windows are modern. A parapet conceals a butterfly roof.

No.24 is two bays wide and three storeys high with a mansard attic. A third outer bay contains the entrance and stair. The two main bays have a segmental window to each bay on each storey and retain six-over-six light sash windows. The outer entrance bay is two storeys at the front, rising at the rear to accommodate the stair, which rises to the second floor. The front door is modern with a plain fanlight beneath a brick arch. The mansard attic is recessed behind the parapet, with a central dormer and a hip roof on the left meeting the tall central stack on the right.

At the rear, the original form is evident. The two main ranges stand with their distinctive butterfly roof profiles, each flanked by a stair tower with monopitched roof. On No.22, an additional bay extends north of the tower. Various single-storey extensions project from the ground floor. The upper floors have a single window each; those on No.24 retain their sashes. No.24 is rendered, whilst No.22 incorporates modern brickwork.

Internally, both houses were originally laid out with two principal rooms to each floor, with the stair and through-corridor in the outer bay. No.22 has an additional bay beyond the stair containing small supplementary rooms and a rear monopitched extension to the kitchen. Both houses contain a collection of six-panel doors, and many rooms retain moulded door and window architraves, cornices, picture rails and skirtings. In No.24, the original plan remains legible, though it is interrupted on the second floor by the addition of a stair to the attic. No.24 has various door and window architraves, though mouldings and joinery survive less extensively than in No.22. A small panelled under-stair room at the rear of the ground floor, now containing a WC, is present in No.24.

The stairs in both houses are straight, winding 180° at the top and passing in front of a long narrow window at the rear of each tower. They have moulded timber newels and spindle and stick balusters, which have been replaced in sections.

Both houses have basements with coal chutes.