Nos. 37-52 (Consec) And Attached Railings

This is a row of sixteen terraced houses located on the north side of New King Street. The houses were built between 1764 and 1770, with alterations made in the 19th century. They are constructed of limestone ashlar, with rubble rear walls, slate roofs, and some double Roman tiles to the lower parts of the mansards.

The terrace is long in plan, with entrances and staircases positioned to the right in numbers 37 to 40, and to the left in the remaining houses. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, and is three windows wide. The windows are generally plain sash windows, although some first and second-floor surrounds are splayed. Most houses have replacement dormers, except for numbers 46 and 52, which have single dormers. Original twelve-pane sashes remain in the top floor of numbers 49, 50, and 51, and on the ground floor of numbers 49 and 51. Most basement windows have two twelve-pane sashes, except for numbers 37, 38, 42, and 43. Number 42 has architraves to the first and second floors, with a cornice to the first floor. The doors are six-panel doors, set within Doric doorcases with pediments. Numbers 40 and 41 share a paired doorcase. House number 52 is a single bay wide, with tripartite sash windows; the second floor has an eight, twelve, eight-pane arrangement, the first floor a ten, fifteen, ten-pane arrangement with a balconette, and the ground floor has paired twelve-pane sashes.

The end houses are plain and rendered, with further houses in the terrace having been lost in bombing damage. All the houses share a platband above the ground floor and a modillion cornice with a blocking course and parapet. There are sixteen deep ashlar stacks within the coped party walls. The rear elevations are mainly of rubble construction, with ashlar cornices and parapets. Each rear elevation features a single dormer, and some have glazing bar sashes.

Interior features were inspected in the 1980s, and demonstrate retention of many original details. Basement areas are enclosed by simple railings on stone curbs, returned to the doorways, and include basement staircases to numbers 49 to 52. Minor variations in cornice height reveal slight breaks in continuity along the terrace, but the construction appears to have been rapid and consistent.