22 Dartmouth Row

22 Dartmouth Row is a house of circa 1690 with 18th and early 19th century alterations. It is built in brick, stuccoed, with a machine-tiled roof and brick chimneystacks.

The building originally comprised two storeys and attics with cellars, featuring four windows (possibly five originally) to the front. It was later extended to the rear. The internal plan contains three main rooms and a staircase well on each floor.

The principal east front is fairly symmetrical beneath a steeply pitched roof with two flat-roofed dormers, each containing a 3-over-3 sash window with moulded architraves and horns. A box eaves cornice and raised bands separate the floors. The first floor contains four 9-over-9 sash windows in moulded architraves with horns. The ground floor features an open pedimented doorcase on brackets with panelled pilasters and a reproduction 10-panel door. To the south are two 9-over-9 sash windows with elliptical heads and horns. To the north is an early 19th century tripartite bay window with 6-over-6 panes flanked by 4-over-4 pane sash windows without horns.

A mid-19th century stuccoed boundary wall is attached at the front, featuring stone coping and two square piers with stone coping flanking a pedestrian entrance.

The rear west elevation is more irregular, comprising three bays. The northern bay contains a 19th century two-storey canted bay window without glazing bars to the first floor and 9-over-9 sash windows to the ground floor. The central bay has a small round-headed casement window to the first floor and a penticed entrance below with a flight of steps and cast iron handrail incorporating a foot-scraper. The southern bay contains an attic window of 8-over-8 panes with horns, a multi-pane window to the first floor, and a flat-roofed extension with a later 19th century window to the ground floor.

The ground floor hall features full-height late 17th or early 18th century panelling with a moulded dado rail and a further moulded rail at approximately two-thirds height, a moulded cornice, a paired elliptical-headed china cupboard with open shelves at the top, and a wooden corner fireplace with moulded and dentilled cornice and cast iron fire-grate.

The adjoining dining room has similar full-height panelling and a marble fireplace.

From the hall to the west, the staircase is approached through a wooden round-headed arch with a keystone, panelled pilasters and moulded imposts. The staircase is dogleg in plan with a closed string, turned balusters, square newel posts with moulded tops and dado panelling.

The rear ground floor sitting room contains a wooden fireplace with a dentilled cornice, oval paterae, honeysuckle motifs and swags.

The first floor south room has full-height panelling, a deep moulded cornice, dado rail, two-panelled door, an angled wooden bolection-moulded fireplace with a moulded shelf, and a built-in cupboard with shelving.

The first floor north room has a two-panelled door, deep moulded cornice, dado rail, fireplace and original floorboards.

The rear first floor bedroom contains a coved cornice and a wooden fireplace with a dentilled cornice, oval paterae, urns and swags.

The attic has a narrow wooden fireplace with a moulded cornice, original floorboards and ledged plank doors with original catches.

The basement retains an 18th or early 19th century corner wooden fireplace, an original plank door, a slate sink and a brick vaulted cellar.