Numbers 1 To 13 And Attached Railings

Numbers 1 to 13 Bloomsbury Place are a row of early 19th-century terraced houses constructed of stucco. The roof is hidden by a parapet. The houses are four storeys high with a basement level, each featuring a single window on each floor. The ground floors have banded rustication, and segmental bay windows are located to the side of each entrance. Above these, a broader, differently angled segmental bay is present, containing tripartite windows. A decorative cornice with a shallow, semi-domed metal roof tops this bay. All windows are flat arched.

The original facades of some houses were altered in the mid to late 19th century with the addition of canted bays of varying sizes and ornamentation. These later bays feature tripartite, flat-arched windows, centrally positioned relative to the original first-floor bay. Number 1 has a canted bay on the second floor; Numbers 2 has bays on the ground and first floors; Numbers 4 and 10-12 have bays on the second and third floors. Numbers 7, 8, and 13 have full-height canted bays that replaced the original ground and first-floor bays. Numbers 7 and 8 feature full-height, quarter Tuscan piers where the bay meets the front wall, corner pilasters in the Tuscan style, vermiculated keystones to the lintels, cornices to the first through third floors, a continuous storey band between the first and second floors, and an entablature to the second floor and attic.

Distinctive features include a storey band between the second and third floors on Numbers 1 and 2, and an attic sill band to Number 9. Number 7's parapet has a pediment pierced by two round-arched windows, suggesting a formerly more expansive central pedimented design similar to that of Numbers 19-31. The houses retain original sash windows, with those to the ground floor of Numbers 1 and 9, first floor of Numbers 1, 3, 6, and 9, second floor of Numbers 3, 6, and 9, and third floor of Numbers 3, 5, 6, and 9, retaining their original designs. Internal stacks serve the party walls. The interior has not been inspected. Cast-iron railings are present at the stairs and area access points. Numbers 1 to 13 form a group with Numbers 15 to 31 Bloomsbury Place.