40-44, Maltravers Street

40-44 Maltravers Street is a group of 19th-century terraced houses designed by J.A. Hansom. They are constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, stringcourses, and a coping to the gable parapets, all topped with tile roofs. Red brick chimneys have cornicing. The houses are three stories high.

The south elevation of each house features a planked oak door set under a four-centred arch with chamfered jambs and voussoirs. Above the door are two square lights with diagonal lead glazing bars, also with chamfered surrounds. The ground floor has a four-light mullion-and-transom window with casements and ornamental lead glazing bars, in a chamfered surround. Similar windows of four, one, and three lights appear on the first and second floors respectively. One window is set within a gable with a coped parapet and a gablet set at right angles to it at the apex. A range of similar two-light windows is present on the west elevation between projecting chimneys.

At the south-west corner, between the stringcourses, is an aedicule with a moulded base carried on acanthus corbelling, framed by colonnettes. It has a battered canopy with a finial and drop tracery, sheltering a niche containing a statue of a crowned male figure in mediaeval dress, holding a sword in his right hand and a model of a Romanesque church in his left hand (presumably depicting a royal founder).

Nos 34 to 44 (even) form a group.