Cambridge House And Attached Railings

Cambridge House is a house dating from approximately 1771 to 1773, designed by John Wood the Younger. It is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, with a rendered basement and ashlar to the rear. The building has a single-pile, parapeted mansard roof and a wing to the rear left. The roof is covered in Welsh Slate, with ashlar stacks on the party wall to the right, adjacent to number 18 Russell Street, and to the rear left.

The front elevation presents three stories, an attic, and a basement. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows with ovolo moulded architraves, cornices, moulded stone sills on console brackets. The second floor mirrors this design. The ground floor has two plate glass sash windows to the right, set in plain reveals with stone sills, and each window has a 19th-century timber blind box. To the left is a six-panel door with flush and glazed panels, a cast iron knocker, and a single stone step. The basement has two plate glass sash windows, a plank door, and a single-pane window set in rendered infilling, beneath the crossover. There are two dormers with plate glass sash windows. The front has a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is not visible.

The interior remains uninspected but is likely of interest. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings 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. The land was originally part of Holdstock’s Garden or Russell's Close and was purchased by Wood and his trustee, Andrew Sproule, from Thomas and Daniel Omer in December 1768.