3 And 5, Mercer Street Wc2

Nos. 3 and 5 Mercer Street are artisan dwellings built around 1905 by the Mercers' Company Estate. The buildings are constructed from dark red ceramic brick, with some red brick and stone dressings, and feature a slate roof. They exhibit a Free Style "Wrenaissance" design with pronounced Baroque details in the stonework. The structure has three storeys and a dormered mansard roof, spanning eight windows in width.

Two staircase entrances are located on either side of the central pair of window bays, featuring stone architraved doorways topped with bold segmental open pediments that frame large cartouche-keys sculpted with the Mercers' Company Queen's head emblem. Above each doorway, there is an oculus with red brick dressings and a stone key. The open staircases are a prominent feature, rising through the eaves with an attic and stone dressing, each culminating in a semicircular arch with a large key that reaches up into the segmental open pediment adorned with swag ornament.

The two central window bays and the flanking staircases have shallow canted bays with glazing bar sashes set in recessed splayed reveals, topped with coppered lintels featuring lion-head studs. The outer window bays contain flush framed glazing bar sashes beneath flat gauged red brick arches.