Nos. 13, 14 And 15 And Attached Railings

Nos. 13, 14 and 15 Marlborough Buildings comprise a group of three terrace houses, part of a larger terrace of thirty-four properties overlooking Royal Victoria Park to the rear. They date to approximately 1789 and are possibly the work of Thomas Baldwin.

The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. They have double-depth plans and are arranged over three storeys with attics and basements (the basements being full storeys high at the rear). Each house has a three-window front. The ground floor is rusticated with arched windows and doors featuring radiating voussoirs. Each house has an eight-panel door with a fanlight above. A platband serves as a sill band to the first floor. The central window on the first floor is recessed and has a pedimented head supported by console brackets; the arch is flanked by a swagged relief panel. The second-floor windows are plain. The building features a listel, cornice, parapet, and a mansard roof with three dormers, along with ashlar stacks on the party wall to the right and a double-span roof. The basement area has two windows, wrought iron railings, and a bridge leading to the front door. Number 13 has four/four-sash windows to the ground and first floors, and two/two sashes to the second and attic floors. A continuous cast iron balcony serves the first-floor windows. Number 14 has two/two-sash windows with horizontal bars across all windows, and a continuous cast iron balcony to the first floor windows. Number 15 has six/six-sash windows to all windows, and separate iron balconettes to the first-floor windows. The rear elevation is ashlar faced.

The interior of Number 13 features horizontal sliding sash windows in the attic, very fine Victorian cast iron balusters in the form of a sinuous vine on a stone staircase. Number 14 includes a large Greek revival elliptical arch with Jacobean strapwork on the ceiling, a fine front door with a circular panel, an inner door with original fanlight, an imaginatively glazed Edwardian door, ornate balusters on the stone staircase, and a very elaborate Adamesque fireplace.

Historically, these three houses form the end of the view seen along Brock Street, past the Royal Crescent, and are therefore grander and more decorated than the remainder of the terrace. The additional features are characteristic of Baldwin's work, though definitive attribution remains unconfirmed.