Number 19 And Attached Railings

Number 19 is a terraced town house, now used as offices, built around 1737. The facade was remodeled around 1865 in the style of Thomas Cundy II, with a top storey added in the late 1880s and a porch and interior remodelled between 1903 and 1904 by W H Romaine-Walker and Besant for Arthur W Davis. The building features grey stock brick with a red brick top floor, a channelled ashlar ground floor, and stone portico and dressings. It has a slate roof with pedimented dormers and stands four storeys tall, including an attic and basement. The facade has three windows and a projecting portico with Ionic pilasters linked by a swag, flanking a round-arched entrance with a keystone. Above this, an entablature is surmounted by a stone balustrade that continues across the first floor windows. The windows are mostly casement, except for the fourth floor and attic, which have sashes. The first floor windows feature lugged architraves and pediments, while the second floor has lugged architraves, bracketed sills, and a continuous sill band. The third floor has a projecting cornice and architraved sashes. The rear elevation includes a wide bow running through the main storeys. Inside, the building is decorated in a sumptuous Empire style with high-quality workmanship overseen by Charles Mellier and Co, using French craftsmen. Notable features include a marble-paved entrance hall with an elegant cantilevered, curved stair that forms a diminishing oval well, complete with cast iron balusters and a brass handrail, and lit by a circular lantern with plasterwork swags. The stairwell has niche recesses with enriched panelled walls, and there are good marble fireplaces with brass enrichment throughout. The first floor drawing rooms feature a central marble Ionic screen, while the second floor rooms are designed in a Beaux-Arts classical idiom. This building is a fine example of the arrangement and style of a grand Edwardian town house.