2-10, EATON GATE SW1

This is an irregular group of terraced houses located on Eaton Gate, built in 1905. Designed by Balfour and Turner, the houses are constructed of Portland stone up to the second floor, with stock brick above and red brick dressings. They are built in a Byzantinizing Free Style and comprise four stories plus a roof storey, except for number 10, which has three stories. Each house has three windows wide.

Numbers 2 and 4 feature broad, three-story canted bay windows, the latter with a gabled top. Numbers 4 to 8 each have broad, first-floor canted bay windows supported on squat pilasters with cushion capitals. These bay windows are adorned with richly foliated cornices and balustrades to numbers 2 to 8. The windows are square-headed sashes with small panes and glazing bars, with third-floor and attic windows featuring segmental heads. A modillion cornice runs above the second floor. Each house has a gable with attic windows, and a pilastered return is visible to the right of number 2. Externally, there are wrought iron area railings, lead down pipes and gutter boxes in an Arts and Crafts design.

The interiors of the houses are in a mid-18th century style. All have dog-leg staircases with turned balusters, and ovolo-moulded, Elizabethan-style stair windows with Art Nouveau patterns to the eaves. The stair halls feature mid-18th century style cornicing, doorcases and enriched friezes. Fireplaces are in various styles, mostly 18th century with some Elizabethan-style caryatids and detailing. Fine plasterwork ceilings decorate the first and second floor rooms, displaying a range of styles from early 17th-century strapwork designs to Queen Anne and Neo-classical motifs. Major rooms are panelled, while the second-floor rooms are plain. Numbers 2 and 4 were not inspected but are noted to have similar interiors.