67 Preston Street, 22-25 Regency Square and attached Railings

Terraced houses and railings of around 1818, attributed to Amon and Amon Henry Wilds, with a later 19th-century phase to the rear of 67 Preston Street, remodelled in the 20th century.

The buildings are constructed of brick with painted stucco render, under slate roofs.

67 Preston Street is entered from the side in Preston Street and has two rooms to each floor above a lit basement. The later 19th-century phase to the rear has a separate entrance and stairs and is laid out as a shop to the ground floor with offices above and below. Numbers 22 to 25 Regency Square are entered from the front in Regency Square and, although not inspected internally, probably have a similar two-room-per-floor plan to the original phase of 67 Preston Street.

67 Preston Street and numbers 22 to 24 Regency Square are of five storeys including a basement and attic, while number 25 has a full-height top floor where it steps up to meet a later infill terrace. Each house has stone steps down to a basement-level entrance and, in the case of 22 to 25, up to the main entrance. They feature a triple-height bow window above a tripartite multi-pane basement window and rusticated treatment to the ground floor including voussoirs above the segmental main entrances and the heads of the ground-floor bow windows (missing at the top on 22, 24 and 25). The first floors have a curved balcony supported on timber console brackets to 67 Preston Street and numbers 22 to 23, and cast-iron to 24 and 25. The roofs are largely hidden with shared chimney stacks with clay pots.

The bow windows to 67 Preston Street have three over one sashes, with stained-glass top lights to the ground floor. Those to the first floor are fronted by a curved balcony with an iron balustrade decorated with scrolls, fronds and a wheel-like motif. Above are two stucco bands beneath the second-floor bow window. The moulded cornice is curved and the parapet above is interrupted by a scroll. The return elevation of the early phase onto Preston Street is scored to imitate ashlar with a stucco storey band between the first and second floor and plain cornice above. To the south (right) side are infilled window openings to each floor. At the centre is a flat-roofed, rusticated and projecting porch with a round-headed opening at ground floor. The 20th-century timber door is panelled and stands under a round-headed fanlight. Above is a sash window of six over one to the first floor and two over two to the second floor. To the north (left) side is a two over two sash to the ground floor protected by 20th-century iron railings above the coal cellar. The first floor above has a canted oriel with casement windows. The second floor has a four-light casement and there are two flat-roofed dormers to the mansard roof pitch.

The later phase to the rear of 67 Preston Street is of lesser architectural interest. The shop to the ground floor has a 20th-century glazed front with tiled stallriser, plain timber fascia and off-centre entrance doors. There is a 20th-century timber pilaster and console bracket to each side (largely missing to the south side) and a 20th-century glazed entrance door to the upper floors located to the south side. To the north end at first-floor level is a two over two canted bay. Towards the centre are three regular two over two sash windows. Above is a moulded storey band and on the second floor a pair of two over two sash windows towards the south end. The north elevation shows evidence of a former wide opening to the ground floor and a pair of two over two sash windows to the first and second floor. The roof is shallow-pitched with a stack towards the north end.

Number 22 has a 20th-century panelled entrance door under a multi-pane rounded fanlight. The first-floor bow window is multi-paned with plain brackets to the top of the mullions, fronted by a curved iron balustrade decorated with filigree balusters. Above are two stucco bands beneath the second-floor bow window which has a single one over one sash window under a stucco band and curved parapet.

Numbers 23 and 24 are similar, except the fanlights have a single pane and at number 24 the first-floor bay has two over two sashes and a single storey band between the first and second floor. Beneath the moulded cornice, the stucco to number 24 has been removed from the first and second floors. The missing stucco extends to the second floor of number 25 either side of the bow window. Number 24 retains its 19th-century panelled entrance door. The central light of the first-floor bow window to number 25 has a two over two sash. There is a moulded cornice above the second-floor bow and a six over six sash window to the third floor under a flat parapet.

Within the early phase of 67 Preston Street, notable interior features include panelled mouldings to the shutters and architrave of the ground-floor bow window, and the skirting and door architraves survive in part. The dog-leg stairs are open string with straight balusters and a moulded handrail. The landings have been adjusted to provide access into the later phase (now closed off). The rooms to the upper floors are functional and plain with 20th-century replacement doors throughout. The rooms to the later phase of 67 Preston Street are all plain with modern fixtures of lesser interest. Numbers 22 to 25 were not internally inspected.

On Regency Square, each house is fronted by a 19th-century run of iron railings with conical finials; some may be later replacements. The short length of railings on Preston Street are 20th-century.