5 and 6 Prospect Row, including attached front area railings and rear boundary wall

Pair of early to mid-18th century town houses situated at 5 and 6 Prospect Row. Both properties were substantially altered in the 19th century, with single-storey ranges added to the rear of each.

Number 5 has a front elevation of grey brick laid in header bond with red brick dressings, though a later second storey is of darker red brick in stretcher bond. The rear elevation is of red brick in English bond, probably dating to the 19th century. The building is three storeys tall (originally two) plus a cellar, with a double plan. The side entrance that originally gave access via a passage at the northern end of No. 6 was enclosed in the late 19th century and became part of the interior, served instead by a new street-front entrance. The front elevation has two bays with paired six-over-six timber horned sash windows to the ground and first floors, set in red-brick segmental arched openings with stone keystones. The later second floor has a centrally placed window with a flat red brick head. A 19th century moulded timber door surround with flat hood supported on consoles marks the entrance. The roof is pitched transversely at the front, with a lean-to semi-mansard roof abutting the side wall of No. 6 over the rear of the central stack. Rear fenestration comprises single two-over-two timber horned sashes in square openings on the first and second floors, plus modern French windows.

The ground-floor front room of No. 5 features full-height panelling, window seats, a moulded cornice, four-panel door, and a fireplace with a replaced or reworked moulded timber chimneypiece with an adjoining alcove containing slender curved shelves and glazed front. The hall has full-height panelling and provides stairs down to a brick-vaulted cellar. The rear room contains a timber chimneypiece with reeded jambs and flanking cupboards. The first-floor front bedroom has full-height panelling and moulded cornice. The second-floor front bedroom has a plain timber chimneypiece with adjoining alcove. The newel stair has a plain square newel post and stick balusters to its top landing.

Number 6 is of red brick throughout, the front elevation in loose Flemish bond (whitewashed) and the rear in English bond. It rises three storeys plus a cellar, with a rear closet range and central internal stack between the front and rear ranges; the stair is adjacent to this stack. The front elevation has four bays with a parapet and dentil cornice. Regular fenestration is arranged with two windows on each floor, set centrally, and entrances flanking the ground floor on either side—the left entrance gives access to No. 5. Windows are eight-over-eight horned timber sashes set in brick segmental-arched openings. The 18th century timber door surround has pilasters supporting a plain entablature with a later hood. The six-panel door has its top two panels replaced with glazed lights. The rear elevation also has a dentil cornice with a two-storey closet wing and a single-storey link to an originally detached rendered single-storey range with tiled hipped roof, possibly originally a stable. Fenestration of the rear elevation is broadly regular, arranged in threes; the central first-floor window has been blocked, whilst the central ground-floor window has been converted to a French window with a single brick arch now connecting it to the left-hand window. Windows are mainly six-over-six hornless timber sashes in tall openings with arched heads. Long single-storey ranges extend to the rear of both houses, probably 19th century in date; that to No. 6 may originally have been a stable.

The ground-floor front room of No. 6 has full-height plain panelling (at least partly of later date), a large brick fireplace opening with timber bressumer and adjoining alcove with probably original slender curved shelves. The rear room has an identical fireplace with adjoining cupboard and four-panel door. The first-floor front room has full-height panelling with dado rail and dentil cornice, plus window seats. All upper-floor rooms have brick fireplace openings with bressumers. The open-well stairs are predominantly 18th century, featuring columnar newel posts with square-section blocks to base and top, flattened pyramidal newel caps, heavily moulded rails (at least in part), turned balusters, and dado panelling with ramped rail.

A brick boundary wall between the two houses has a soldier-course capping and steps down in height to the east. The properties also include attached front-area railings and rear boundary wall as part of the listing.

Both buildings retain tile roofs throughout.