Carlton Cottages

A pair of semi-detached houses built in 1829 in Southwark. The houses are stucco-faced with a hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, and a central chimney stack. They are two storeys tall with a basement, each house having two bays. The outer entrance bay is slightly lower and recessed, with its own separately hipped roof. Steps lead to square-headed doorways with plain reveals; No. 12 originally had a scalloped lead canopy over its entrance (though the wooden trellis porch it supported is now lost). Three tall, fluted pilasters articulate the central section, rising through both floors and featuring ammonite capitals – a motif popularized by Amon Wilds at Brighton and now rare in London – which support segmental arches over the first-floor windows. The windows are square-headed and in plain reveals, with margin lights. The ground-floor windows are tall casements with console bracketed cornices, while the first-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The interior was not inspected. The cottages were originally part of a row of three pairs and are similar in style to numbers 864 and 866, Old Kent Road, likely built by the same builder. Numbers 6 and 8, and numbers 10 and 12, form a group.