No. 3 And Attached Railings

No. 3 Russell Street is a house, dating from approximately 1771-1773, and designed by John Wood the Younger. It is now divided into flats. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear features ashlar and rubble construction. The roof is double piled with a mansard to the front, rising to a full third storey at the rear, covered with artificial slate. The front has a coped parapet and a shared lead hopperhead at the eaves with No. 4 Russell Street.

The three-bay front has three windows to each floor. The first floor has plate glass, horned sash windows set within splayed, ovolo-moulded architraves, featuring friezes and cornices. Each window has lowered, moulded stone sills with cut-down console brackets supporting wrought iron balconettes, embellished with lattice fronts and lyres. The second floor mirrors this design with six/six-paned horned sashes. The ground floor features two plate glass, horned sash windows to the left and an eight-panel door with fielded panels in a reeded timber surround, decorative radial fanlight over, and panelled sidelights, all within a round-headed reveal with a cavetto moulding. A single step leads to a Pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. The basement has two two/two-pane sashes and a 20th-century half-glazed door. Limestone area steps with Pennant inserts and a wrought iron handrail lead to the front entrance. Dormers with plate glass sashes are set into the roof. A band course runs above the ground floor, and a modillion eaves cornice tops the building.

The rear elevation includes six/six-pane sashes to the staircase and a mix of horned glazing-bar and plate glass sashes to the first floor, with a simple wrought iron balconette. There is a 19th-century full-height extension to the rear centre, along with a cantilevered lavatory and a ground floor extension in concrete blockwork. The interior remains uninspected.

Attached to the front are wrought iron railings on buns and a gate with shaped heads on painted bases.

Russell Street was developed by John Wood in conjunction with the Assembly Rooms and the east end of Rivers Street, built on land purchased from Thomas and Daniel Omer in 1768.