26, 28 AND 30, CROOMS HILL SE10

Nos. 26, 28 and 30 Crooms Hill are a group of late 18th century terraced houses situated on the west side of Crooms Hill.

No. 26 is a three-storey, four-window building constructed of red brick with a stone cornice and a rebuilt parapet. A stone band runs along the first floor window cills, and there is a brick band above the first floor. The front of the building has been largely rebuilt above the first floor cill band. The recessed mid-19th century sash windows have vertical glazing bars with gauged flat arches above. A prostyle Doric porch has a dentil cornice. The rear pilasters have capitals carved with foliage. The front door consists of four fielded panels and two flat panels, set within a panelled reveal, and is topped with a cornice head and a rectangular fanlight featuring a radial pattern. A small wrought iron railing surrounds the porch, and wrought iron area railings are also present. The return side to Gloucester Circus is constructed of yellow stock brick and features five blank windows on the first and second floors. A pediment with a brick roundel in the tympanum sits above these windows, and a stone panel in the base of the chimney displays incised Roman lettering reading "CIRCUS."

No. 28 is a three-storey, four-window building constructed of multicoloured stock brick with a rebuilt parapet and a slated mansard roof. A brick cornice band runs around the building, and a moulded stucco band is located at the second floor level. The sash windows have glazing bars within old box frames, slightly recessed, with the exception of the ground floor which retains original sashes. The front door features six panels, the two upper panels glazed, and is set within a panelled reveal, with a cornice head and a patterned rectangular fanlight. A Doric porch, with square columns and wreaths in the frieze, is likely a later addition. Plain wrought iron area railings are also present.

No. 30 is a three-storey, attic, and basement building with three windows. It has a slate mansard roof with three flat dormers and a renewed wood modillion cornice below the parapet. The building is constructed of multicoloured stock brick with a stuccoed basement. Gauged flat brick arches are above the renewed sash windows, which have glazing bars within flush frames. The front door is a four-panel door under a cornice head that continues through the fielded, panelled reveals and is topped with a plain rectangular fanlight. A doorcase of attached Doric columns, a pulvinated frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a pediment is also present. A two-storey, one-window set back left extension is obscured by a mid-19th century addition of two narrow round-arched windows, with sashes and margin lights, set in round arched recesses. A dentil cornice is at the first floor level, and a louvred door is at ground floor level. Lancehead wrought iron area railings are also present.

Nos. 6 to 46 (even), and Nos. 38 and 40, all on the west side of Crooms Hill, form a group of buildings of group value.