1-13, Lower Camden Place

This is a terrace of thirteen houses on Lower Camden Place, built in the early 19th century with later 19th-century alterations. The terrace steps uphill from number 1 to the right. The houses were possibly designed by John Pinch. They are constructed from limestone ashlar, some of which has been painted, with slate and double Roman tile roofs, and moulded stacks to the party walls and left end.

The houses have double-depth plans, and each is two bays wide, with two storeys and a lower ground floor. Nos. 1-12 have coped parapets, cornices that step around pilasters to the right of each house, and flank No.12 to the left. They also feature ground floor platbands, banded rustication, and radial voussoirs to the ground floor openings. Originally, the windows were six-over-six pane sashes, with six-panel doors and overlights that gradually diminish in height towards No.12, which has a very narrow overlight. The doors to Nos. 1-6 have been blocked. Small circular windows are located to the right of the doors at Nos. 1 and 6. The platbands of Nos. 1 and 6 are carved with “LOWER CAMDEN PLACE,” suggesting the terrace was built in two stages.

No. 1 has plate glass sash windows, balconettes to the first floor, and a blocked overlight to its four-panel door. No. 2 is similar, as is No. 3. No. 4 has six-over-six-pane sash windows and a six-panel door. No. 5 has plate glass sash windows and a five-panel door with glazed upper panels. No. 6 has six-over-six-pane sash windows and a six-panel door. No. 7 is similar to No. 6. No. 8 has plate glass sash windows and a six-panel door. No. 9 is similar to No. 8, with a small window to the right of its door. No. 10 has similar windows and a late 19th-century four-panel door. No. 11 has similar windows with late 19th-century cast iron cresting to the first-floor sills. No. 12 has balconettes to its six-over-six-pane sash windows and a six-panel door with glazed upper panels. No. 13 is a later addition, without rustication or pilasters. It features ornamental stops to the chamfered arrises of its two six-over-six-pane sash windows to the first floor and one plate glass sash to the ground floor, which is hooded by a timber bressumer. It has a six-panel door with glazed upper panels, a small circular window, and an inset boot scraper to the right. The interiors have not been inspected.