No 2 Including Walls And Gatepiers

This is a villa, later converted into flats, dating from around 1880, with alterations to the attic made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of yellow stock bricks, featuring moulded brick detailing and enrichments, and has a bitumen-covered slate roof with overhanging eaves supported by a bracket cornice, ridge tiles, and two tall brick stacks. The building is organised with a double-fronted design, including a single-storey garden room on the south front. It has three storeys over a basement and an attic, with a three-bay, single-bay, three-bay facade. Full-height canted bays flank the central entrance bay. The windows are sashes without glazing bars, featuring projecting cills carried on brackets and dogtooth strings. The second storey has a few windows with a single vertical glazing bar to the sash windows. A glazed loggia is located above the porch on the first floor, incorporating three bays with two-bay returns. The porch has a strong ovolo moulded cornice with an anthemion and palmette design, and an ornamental brick panel forming the parapet. The brickwork porch is similar in style to number 6. It includes garlanded volutes to the frieze, foliate capitals on rusticated shafts, and a round-arch opening with ornamented spandrels, leading to a half-glazed, panelled door approached by a flight of marble steps. A low wall with a twisted cast-iron handrail and tessellated pavement runs alongside the property. A single-storey, one-bay, flat-roofed wing is set back to the south front and features a canted bay. On the main elevation, a pointed arch-head opening features a tympanum of moulded bricks with a floral design acting as a hoodmould to two single-light sash windows. The interior remains uninspected. The building is believed to have a garden or breakfast room, which faces south. The property was first mentioned in street directories in 1881. The front is marked by brick walls and gatepiers with pyramid caps.