50 and 52, Trafalgar Avenue

A pair of houses built in 1851-2 on Trafalgar Avenue, Southwark. The houses are constructed of yellow brick with stucco dressings, and have a low-pitched slate roof with deep eaves. They are three storeys high with a basement, and each house has two bays, with a slightly recessed inner entrance bay. A round-arched doorway is set within a stucco panel, featuring pilasters and an entablature with a key moulding, dentil and modillion cornice. The ground-floor windows are large, four-light sashes with moulded architraves and an entablature with console bracketed cornices, and projecting sills with decorative cast-iron guards. Above the doors is a stucco panel that sweeps up to the first-floor round-arched sash windows, which are paired in the outer bay and single above the doors. A heavy stucco entablature sits above, featuring a cornice on console brackets with guttae, a panelled frieze, and an egg-and-dart moulding. The second-floor sash windows have moulded architraves and are tripartite in the outer bay. The interior has not been inspected. The houses include a cast-iron handrail between them. They are part of a group including the Lord Nelson Public House and numbers 16-64 (even) on Trafalgar Avenue.