18, Cowley Street Sw1

No. 18 Cowley Street is a terrace house built around 1722. It features a brown brick exterior and a tiled roof, with three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard. The building is four windows wide, and the entrance is located in the second bay from the left. It has an early 18th-century doorcase with Doric pilasters and an entablature that has a slight break, along with soffit panels beneath the cornice hood. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged rubbed brick arches, with similar brick dressings on the jambs and apron panels below the sills. There are brick plat bands and a parapet with coping. The ground floor features early 19th-century wrought iron window guards, and the area railings are finely scroll-ornamented wrought iron with urn finials. This house is part of an exceptionally well-preserved group of early 18th-century housing, along with Barton and Lord North Streets.