No.17 And Attached Wrought Iron Guards To Basement Areas

No. 17 Morford Street and its attached wrought iron basement guards are two houses built around 1775-1789, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front facades are limestone ashlar, now painted, with timber bressumers over the ground floor to the right. The rear is a mix of ashlar, rubble, and double-pile roofs, with a parapet to the front. The front left section has pantiles, while the front right and rear have pantiles. Party walls are coped with an ashlar stack to the left front of each house, and rebuilt brick, ashlar, and render stacks rise from the rear walls.

Each house is three storeys high with a basement, presenting a single-bay, two-window front. The house on the left has paired plate glass sash windows with horns on the first floor, featuring a wrought iron balconette and continuous stone sill. The second floor also has paired plate glass sash windows with a similar balconette and stone sill. A plate glass horned sash window is on the ground floor to the left, and a 20th-century five-panel door is centrally located within a moulded stone architrave with a projecting cornice. The basement window has been blocked. The house to the right mirrors this layout with splayed reveals for the windows and a 20th-century six-panel door with a niche for a footscraper. The basement window here is also blocked. Both houses share a band course above the ground floor and a moulded eaves cornice with a coped parapet rebuilt in reconstituted stone. The rear elevations display six/six sash windows with horns on the ground floor, with 20th-century windows replacing former staircase windows to the left, and the right side's former staircase windows blocked. 20th-century alterations to the basement are partly obscured by a ramp. Each house has a D-plan opening in the pavement, protected by wrought iron guards on a limestone base. The interiors were not inspected but are noted to have been altered during conversion to flats.