Numbers 2-5 And Attached Railings

Numbers 2-5 and the attached railings are terraced houses that are now part of the Tarner Hostel, built in the early 19th century. They are constructed of brick in Flemish bond with straight joins and have slate roofs.

The buildings rise three storeys above a basement and each house has two windows, although No.5 is wider than the others. Each house features a round-arched entrance with a fanlight, and decorative glazing bars are present on Nos 2-4. The doors maintain their original design. To the right of each entrance is a single window, all of which are flat arched with gauged brick lintels and projecting sills. There are storey bands between the ground and first floors, as well as between the first and second floors.

The first-floor windows are floor to ceiling and have shallow cast-iron balconies with intersecting ogee arches and quatrefoil bands. The second-floor windows are shorter, suggesting an attic storey. The parapet has coping that steps down due to the level change of the site.

No.5 features two windows on the ground floor with a flat-arched entrance and an overlight with decorative glazing bars to the left. It has gauged brick lintels and a six-panel door that matches the decorative studding found on the other doors. The window arrangement is similar to the other units, but the second floor has three windows, one of which is blocked. The first-floor windows of Nos 3-5 and the second-floor windows of No.5 retain original sashes and isolated glazing bars. There are stacks on the party walls.

These houses form a group with No.1 Tilbury Place.