No. 9 And Attached Railings

This is a terrace house, dating to approximately 1790-1793, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was designed by John Palmer as part of an incomplete development of St James's Square, on land leased in 1790.

The front of the house is constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the ground floor, with painted rubble to the basement and ashlar and rubble to the rear. The roof is double pile and parapeted, with a mansard built up to the full third floor at the front. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and double Roman tiles to the rear, with a coped party wall and two ashlar stacks. An external staircase leads to the rear of the property.

The front elevation features four storeys and a basement, displaying a three-window facade. The first floor has three grouped plate glass sash windows with horn detailing, the outer windows being narrower and set in splayed reveals with a continuous wrought iron balconette. The second floor has three similar sash windows, four/four, six/six, and four/four panes, in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill. The third floor has two six/six sash windows with stone sills. The ground floor has two plate glass sash windows with a stone sill to the right, and a six-panel door with flush, fielded, and glazed panels within a stone doorcase, likely dating to the early 19th century. The doorcase has a moulded architrave and a hood with a reeded edge on console brackets, leading to a step and a pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. Basement windows are of a matching design, with a half-glazed door and overlight beneath the crossover.

Architectural details include a timber bressumer and a stone band course over the ground floor, a weathered sill band to the first floor, a frieze and moulded cornice (formerly at eaves) over the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation has a six/six sash window to the second floor and plate glass sashes to the first floor, along with a dormer window with wrought iron balconettes and a timber cantilever lavatory with a lead hopperhead.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Attached to the front of the property are wrought iron railings and a gate, with cast urn heads on limestone bases. The property’s history is linked to a lease and sale relating to property from 1856, and its location along one of the diagonal approaches to St James’s Square.