1-30, Waterloo Crescent

Waterloo Crescent comprises numbers 1 to 30, a terrace of houses built between 1834 and 1838 by Philip Hardwick. The terrace is divided into three sections: a central section with 19 houses and two outer sections with 5 houses each. The houses are five storeys high with a basement and feature a basement area. Each house has three windows to the front.

The buildings are stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor. The ground floor windows are round-headed, with round-headed doorways below. A continuous iron balcony, originally supported by thin iron columns from the ground floor and with a continuous hood, was present on the first floor. This balcony has since been replaced by a glazed veranda with a balcony above it on number 16. The end houses of each section have curved fronts, as do nine of the centre houses. These end houses and the central houses feature Corinthian pilasters from the first to the second floor, supporting a tile entablature that continues along the houses without pilasters. Above this entablature is a stucco-fronted third floor with round-headed windows, plain pilasters between them, a cornice, and a parapet above. A mansarded roof incorporates an attic storey. The remaining houses have a double-mansard arrangement with slate roofing, the upper section set back. Most of the original glazing bars have been lost. Entrances are located at the rear of the buildings.

Numbers 1 to 30, Waterloo Crescent, are considered to form a group of buildings of group value.