10-22, RUTLAND GATE

10-22 Rutland Gate is a terrace of five houses, with No. 22 being a later addition. The terrace was built between 1838 and 1840, by John Tombs, a builder, possibly to designs by Edward Cresy the elder, who was estate surveyor for the Rutland House estate. The buildings are constructed of stock brick with stucco dressings. Each house has three bays, four storeys, basements and full attics; mansard roofs were added to Nos 16-20 later. Porches feature distinctive palm-headed column capitals. The ground floor is channelled stucco, and the houses have panelled front doors with margin lights, some of which have been altered. First-floor cast-iron balconies are supported by moulded brackets and feature French windows with alternating segmental and triangular architrave pediments. No. 14 has a bow window added in the 1920s. Upper-storey architraves, stringcourses and cornices define the facade. The windows are predominantly twelve-pane sashes, although some have been replaced with plate glass. The attic windows are six-light sashes, with blind central bays on alternate houses—Nos 12, 16 and 20. The three-bay north return to No. 10 also features blind outer bays. Spearhead cast-iron area railings are present. No. 22 was built separately in 1841, and is one storey lower, with altered first and second storeys that are fully stuccoed. The interiors of the houses have not been inspected. The terrace represents a substantial survival, and provides a key element in the original layout of Rutland Gate’s north garden square.