Numbers 9 And 11 And Attached Railings

Two houses, built around 1843 to 1845, likely designed by the Brighton architect Amon Henry Wilds. They are stucco-faced with a hipped slate roof and overhanging eaves. Each house has two bays and a rusticated semi-basement. Giant, fluted Ionic pilasters run up through the ground and first floors, framing the inner bay of each house and supporting segmental arches above the first-floor windows. The outer entrance bays are slightly recessed with steps leading to a square Ionic porch, featuring a deep entablature and corresponding pilasters; the porch to Number 9 is missing. Sash windows are present, with those in the inner bays having segmental heads, and those above the porch being round-headed within shallow, round-arched recesses. A string course sits above the basement. Cast-iron grilles are fitted to the ground-floor windows. The interior remains uninspected. The property includes area railings and rails to the porch. These houses are part of a group of nine identical semi-detached pairs, facing a row of four similar houses, forming numbers 1 to 35 (odd) and 24 to 38 (even).