Kent House, 4 and 4A Howard Street

Kent House is a pair of town houses built in the early 19th century. The buildings are made of exposed red brick and stucco, with a slate roof. The brickwork has slight color variations between the two houses, likely due to different cleaning and repointing times. They stand three storeys tall, plus a basement.

The exterior features a symmetrical design across two bays on the entrance front. The ground floor of both houses is stuccoed, with the ground floor of 4A Howard Street being channelled. It includes a single round-headed sash window and a five-panelled door beneath a plain rectangular fanlight, all set within a round-arched recess next to the party wall. The upper floors are finished in exposed brickwork laid in Flemish bond, with a stucco plat band at the first-floor cill height. Each townhouse has two six-over-six sash windows on the first floor and two three-over-three sash windows on the second floor. All eight upper-floor windows are topped with well-crafted flat arches made of gauged brickwork. A stucco corniced parapet hides a pair of hipped slate roofs.

The rear elevation is made of exposed brickwork and features a mix of sash and modern casement windows. There is a two-storey, full-width extension at 4A Howard Street.