No.36 And Attached Railings

No. 36 is a house, later converted to flats, dating from circa 1790 to 1793, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was designed by John Palmer. The front of the building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a rubble basement and limestone and render to the right side and rear. It has a Welsh slate, double-pile, mansard roof, a coped gable wall, and two ashlar stacks with early clay pots to the right. A staircase is located at the rear.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and features a three-window range. The first floor has three four/four-sash windows with plain stone sills and sarcophagus-shaped wrought iron balconettes. The second floor has three 19th-century plate glass, horned sash windows in a similar style. The ground floor has two similar sashes to the right, and a door to the left with two flush and two raised and fielded panels, and a single glazed panel within a pedimented Doric doorcase displaying the number '36'. There is one step leading to a pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper and a pair of 20th-century gates. The basement has two six/six-sash windows, a plank door, and a single-pane window set within an ashlar infilling beneath the crossover. The original area steps have been removed. There is one double and one single dormer window with plate glass sashes. Details include a timber bressummer, a stone band course over the ground floor, a frieze, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation has 19th- and 20th-century windows with wrought iron balconettes to the ground and first floors, one double and one single dormer window, a 19th-century ashlar extension up to the second-floor landing, and a 20th-century fire escape to the second floor.

The interior of the house was not inspected during the listing process.

Attached to the building are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped tops on limestone bases.

The house is part of an incomplete development of St James's Square, constructed on land leased in 1790. The upper part of Park Street was commenced to the design of John Palmer, and later continued, but not completed, to the design of John Pinch after 1808. Originally, the street terminated at All Saints’ Chapel and was intended to be extended north-westwards as Regent Place.