13-19, Lord North Street

A terrace of houses built around 1720-25. The buildings are constructed of brown brick with tiled roofs and have three storeys, basements, and dormered mansards. Originally, each house fronted three windows wide, with the exception of number 16, which has four. The entrances are primarily on the left side. The panelled doors are set within wooden architrave cases and are flush with segmental arches; however, number 14 has a reeded door surround dating to around 1800, and number 19 features a cornice hood supported by carved console brackets. The windows are flush-framed glazing bar sashes, some of which are blind, and are set within red brick segmental arches. The parapets have stone copings. The original wrought iron area railings are noteworthy, featuring urn finials and, in some cases, scrollwork supports linking extinguishers. The interiors retain substantial original panelling, passage halls, and dog-leg staircases. The staircases are largely intact, featuring cut and carved strings up to the landing above the first floor, continued with a closed string and turned balusters. The terrace forms part of a remarkably well-preserved group of early 18th-century houses, alongside Barton and Cowley Streets and the surviving original sections of Smith Square. Numbers 13 and 18 were formerly separate properties, later combined with numbers 14 and 19 respectively, though the original doorways were retained.