Numbers 16, 17 And 18 And Attached Railings

Numbers 16, 17, and 18 Devonshire Place are a group of terraced houses built around 1825, likely designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The roofs are slate on numbers 16 and 17, and tile on number 18.

The houses are three storeys high with dormers above a basement, and each has two windows. A round-arched entrance with a fanlight is shared by numbers 16 and 17, framed by fluted Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. The entrance to number 17 is set within a simple panelled aedicule, filling the arch spandrels. Number 18’s entrance is sheltered by a porch composed of attached fluted Ionic columns and an entablature. The ground floor is rusticated. Number 18 features a full-height bay, canted to the ground floor and with a segmental curve above; the windows here are flat-arched and tripartite. Numbers 16 and 17 have a segmental bay on the first and second floors only, with fluted Ionic pilasters flanking the latter’s rise. A window on the first and second floor is placed to the right of the bay, above the entrance. All windows are flat-arched. A wrought-iron balcony is present on the first floor of number 16, and a smaller balcony on the first-floor bay of number 18, with cast-iron brackets and railings. A cornice and blocking course runs along the front, but is incomplete on number 16, where the bay stops short of the original line. There are two flat-arched dormers above each house, separated by stacks along the party walls.

The interior remains uninspected. Cast-iron railings are present on the staircases and landings.