Numbers 6 To 10 (Even) And Attached Railings

A group of three houses at Mount Row, built 1929–31 by Frederick Etchells and constructed by T Downer. Two are now used as offices. The group is listed Grade II.

Nos. 6 and 10 are built in red brick with tiled roofs comprising a central mansard with dormers flanked by half-hipped projections. No. 8 is constructed in multi-coloured stock brick. The buildings are arranged with Nos. 6 and 10 fronting Mount Row and No. 8 set to the rear, accessed via a central passageway.

Nos. 6 and 10 present a Tudor-style composition of three storeys with attics. All windows are wooden framed casements with small panes. The central bay features a four-centred arch passageway flanked by two-light windows. On the first floor is a seven-light projecting transom and mullion bay window on carved brackets, with the centre light filled by a carved, traceried wooden panel containing two figures in cusped niches. The second floor has two three-light windows. The projecting outer bays each feature ground floor five-light transom and mullion canted bay windows, overhung by upper storeys with deeply carved lintels on brackets displaying grotesque carved figures. The undersides of the overhangs are pargetted in foliar and floral designs. First floors have five-light windows with moulded brick labels bearing carved and rubbed brick grotesque mask stops; the second floor has four-light similar windows; and the third floor has two-light similar windows. Enriched lead rainwater heads and pipes in Tudor design are present. Between the canted bays and angles are moulded plaster flower troughs of foliar design. Across the facades are attached wrought iron posts linked by chains, shaped as stylised trees continuing a theme from the passageway. The interiors were altered in the late 20th century.

The passageway has four-centred arch entrances right and left to Nos. 6 and 10. It comprises five bays with brick pilasters supporting a beamed ceiling with pargetted designs—two coffered and two of geometric design with foliar enrichment. The fourth bay is a lightwell with walls pargetted with large stylised trees and flowers. The passageway terminates in a four-centred arch with good wrought iron gates of scroll design, forming the entrance to No. 8.

No. 8 was converted from one of the back buildings formerly belonging to No. 52 Grosvenor Street. It is two storeys with irregular fenestration in Gothick style, featuring a long projecting central bay with a central pointed arch doorway containing a plank door with wrought iron strap hinges and enrichment. A small pointed arch window to the left has patterned glazing. Transom and mullion windows appear in the left and right bays. A crenellated parapet with crenellated turret crowns the roof. Enriched lead rainwater heads and pipes are present.

In the courtyard to the west is a pargetted niche of fruit tree design with an enriched moulded plaster seat. To the east stands an imported lead cistern inscribed "1761 S.W." with an enriched pumphead set beneath a gabled diamond tile roof with enriched rainwater head and pipe feeding the cistern; the gable is pargetted.

The interior of No. 8 comprises a lobby with panelled oak dado and moulded plaster ceiling of oak branch and acorn design. Double oak plank doors with elaborate wrought iron strap hinges of floral design open into the hall, which features linenfold oak panelling with a frieze of carved panels containing portrait heads in wreathed roundels, flanked by foliar and floral enrichment. Above this is a moulded plaster frieze of birds (ravens?) flanking heraldic roses, and a fine moulded plaster ceiling of intertwining stylised grapevines in 16th-century style. A pseudo stone fireplace with strapwork and floral enrichment is present. A stair leads off through a narrow pointed archway with a carved and chamfered newel surmounted by a carved wooden peasant figure bending on one knee. The sitting room is entered through a pointed arch of pseudo stone with half columns wreathed in ivy. It features veneered oak panelling with a moulded plaster frieze of fleur-de-lis design and a fine moulded plaster ceiling of intertwining strapwork with fleur-de-lis and stylised roses. Beams (probably RSJs forming part of the original building) display intricate strapwork design. A pseudo stone fireplace has a plaster panel above, stained and grained to appear as carved oak with heraldic roses and mythical birds and beasts. Old stained glass windows were inserted circa 1987. A narrow stair with flat profile carved half balusters leads upward; the stairwell and landing are panelled with moulded plaster stained and grained to appear as oak. A moulded plaster ceiling of simple strapwork design features intermittent plaster monk corbels and an octagonal lantern. All first floor rooms have fine elaborate moulded plaster ceilings of foliar and floral design. A narrow stair to the roof turret has a similar newel and carved figure to that in the hall.

Nos. 6–10 (even) form a group with Nos. 12 and 14 Mount Row.