16-19, DUNRAVEN STREET W1

Nos 16 to 19 Dunraven Street are a group of terrace houses built in 1897-98 by Sidney R.J. Smith. Constructed of red brick with generous stone dressings and slate roofs, these four symmetrical houses exhibit a lively mix of Georgian and Carolean architectural details and carvings. They rise to four storeys, with basements and attics, and each house features a three-window-wide front.

The central pair of houses has gabled fronts with entrances located at the centre, leading to recessed porches that are topped with curved stone hoods. The ground and first floors boast three-light, stone-dressed bow windows, which are adorned with carved enrichments on the aprons and consoles. The upper floors have architraved windows, while the gables feature Diocletian attic windows. A continuous ornamental cast iron balcony spans the third floor.

The flanking houses have their entrances on the left and right sides, with doorways that include enriched stone architraves and pedimented hoods. Each of these houses has a through-storey stone-dressed rectangular bay on the ground and first floors, featuring a Venetian window on the ground floor and a tripartite window with columns and an entablature on the first floor. The upper floors have architraved windows with pediments on the second floor and rusticated columns on the third floor. Stone cornices and swept parapets complete the design. All four houses are enclosed by stone walls with cast iron railings between ball finialed piers, leading to the areas.