95-99, ST JAMES'S STREET

These are a terrace of four houses on St James’s Street, dating from the early 19th century. Numbers 95 and 96 are built of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while numbers 97 and 99 are stuccoed. Numbers 95 and 96 have mathematical tiles to their bays, and number 99 has similar tiles. The roofs are hidden behind a parapet.

The houses are four storeys high, with one window each, except for number 96, which has two. Access to the flats is through returns of passages at the party walls, with late 19th and 20th-century shop fronts at ground-floor level. Segmental bays project from the first and second floors of all but number 99, which has a full-height bay. All windows are flat-arched. Numbers 95, 96 and 99 have simple cornices to finish their bays. Number 96 includes a flat-arched window on each floor to the left of its bay. Original sash windows are present throughout, with tripartite windows to numbers 95 and 96; these have 4x4 sashes to the sidelights and 6x6 to the centre. The first-floor windows of number 96 have sashes of 3x6, 6x6, and 4x8. Numbers 97 and 98 are the most ornate, featuring triple windows to their bays. The first-floor bays of numbers 97 and 98 have round arches with 4x6 sashes, with decorative glazing bars to the top sash. The second-floor flat-arched windows have 4x4 sashes. Fluted Ionic columns are attached between the first-floor bays and at the bay’s join with the front wall, with ornamental necking, impost blocks with floral ornament, and architraves to the arches. An entablature to the first-floor bay serves as a continuous sill to the second-floor bay windows. Columns, without capitals, are attached between the second-floor bay windows and at the joint with the front wall. Numbers 97 and 98 feature an entablature with a projecting cornice and blocking course at the top of the bays, above which are two flat-arched windows, each with an architrave and 3x6 sashes. The third-floor right-hand window of number 97 is blocked. A continuous cornice and parapet runs above numbers 97 and 98. Party wall stacks are present. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.