Numbers 53-56 And Attached Railings

Numbers 53-56 and their attached railings are a terrace of houses dating from around 1830, designed by Amon Henry Wilds. They are constructed of stucco with obscured roofs behind a parapet.

The houses are arranged as two matching pairs to accommodate the slope of the road, each with three storeys and an attic over a basement, and a two-window frontage. All windows are flat-arched. Steps lead to a flat-arched entrance flanked by Doric pilasters supporting an entablature with a triglyph frieze and mutules, surmounted by an overlight. The ground floor is rusticated. Ground-floor windows feature blind balustrading within their spandrels. The first and second floors of each house are framed by fluted pilasters with "Ammonite" capitals, which carry an entablature with a bracketed cornice. First-floor windows have individual cast-iron balconettes with anthemion ornament, and round-arched architraves featuring a frieze of wreaths and shell-moulds in the tympanum. Second-floor windows are similarly detailed with bracketed sills, moulded architraves, and strapwork ornament within their spandrels. The attic storey features simplified pilasters extending into semicircular caps decorated with anthemion ornament, though these caps are absent from numbers 55 and 56; a cornice tops this, followed by the parapet. Chimney stacks are situated on the party walls.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Cast-iron railings are present at the steps, with gadrooned standards and halberd finials.