131, KINGS ROAD

No. 131, King's Road is a terraced house built between 1828 and 1830, with alterations to the ground floor around 1900. It was designed by Amon Henry Wilds for the Duke and Duchess of St Albans. The house is constructed of stucco with a visible slate roof.

The exterior presents a five-storey-over-basement façade, with a three-window arrangement facing King’s Road and a five-window arrangement facing Regency Square. A circa-1900 round-arched entrance is located on the left side of the King's Road elevation; it features partly fluted engaged columns on raised bases supporting a round arch with a Gibbs surround, double panelled doors, a dentil cornice, and a fanlight. Above the entrance is a small decorative scrolled pediment and a panel lettered ‘ST ALBANS’. The ground floor of both the King's Road and Regency Square elevations has been altered to form a restaurant, with slim cast-iron columns containing foliage and fluting, supporting elliptical and flattened elliptical arches, a fascia, a modillion cornice, and cast-iron railings above to form a first-floor balcony. The upper floors of the King's Road elevation have flat-arched windows. A three-window segmental bay is located on the right, with a single window to the left. The first-floor windows have an architrave and a floating cornice, the second floor has an architrave only, and a storey band is present. The third floor has an architrave only. A dentil cornice runs along the top of the building, and the attic storey has windows within round-arched architraves, with shell ornament filling the tympanum. A cornice and blocking course complete the facade. The Regency Square elevation features a full-height segmental bay on the right, with a three-window arrangement, and two blank windows on each floor to the left. The ground floor of this bay is rusticated, and a balcony is present on the first floor. Side stacks are a feature of the roofline.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.