15-23, ALBERT SQUARE SW8

This is a symmetrical terrace of houses numbered 15 to 23, located on Albert Square. Dating to the 18th century, the terrace is arranged in a 1-2-3-2-1 grouping. Each house is three and a half storeys high, with two or three windows across the front. The construction is primarily stock brick with hipped slate roofs. The facades are embellished with plentiful stucco dressings, including quoins and incised detailing to the ground floor and basement. These are complemented by banded panels and an entablature, featuring a dentil cornice in places, supported by pilasters and engaged columns. A main entablature, with a modillion cornice and curved brackets, runs along the third floor level, while a subsidiary cornice is present at the second floor and a top cornice incorporates a blocking course. The windows are sash windows, many with glazing bars, set within moulded architraves. Console bracketed cornices adorn the first-floor windows. Numbers 15, 18, 20, and 23 feature projecting square bays, with grouped first-floor windows unified beneath a central pediment. A central pediment also sits above the group centre. Round-arched doorways with impost strings are found at all houses, along with ground floor windows of the intermediate houses. Balustrades are present to the areas and flanking flights of six steps leading to the four-panel doors, which each feature a plain fanlight.