No.34 And Attached Railings

No. 34 is a house dating from approximately 1790 to 1793, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was designed by John Palmer. The front is built of limestone ashlar, while the basement is of rubble construction. The roof is a double-pitched mansard style covered in Welsh slate, featuring a coped gable wall and two ashlar stacks incorporating some early clay pots. A staircase is located at the rear.

The house is three stories high, with an attic and basement, presenting a single bay and a three-window facade. The first floor has three grouped 19th-century plate glass sash windows with horns, narrower on either side, set in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill. The second floor features three similar windows. On the ground floor are two plate glass sash windows with horns and a six-panel door with flush panels and four glazed panels; the door has a 19th-century knocker in a plain reveal and an ogee zinc hood with roundel decoration. A step leads to a pennant-paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. The basement has a pair of six-pane sashes in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill, a plank door, and a two-light window set within an ashlar infill below the crossover. Modern area steps provide access. A triple dormer window has two six-pane sashes and a plate glass sash. Architectural details include a band course above the ground floor, a frieze, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. A lead hopperhead is present at the eaves on the left side. The rear elevation features 19th-century windows, including a wrought iron balconette on the first floor. Early glazing bar sashes are found on the staircase. A double dormer is present, along with a single-story ashlar extension. The interior remains uninspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with cast iron tops on limestone bases, including a lifting section. No. 34 was part of an incomplete development of St James’s Square on land leased from Sir Peter Rivers Gay in 1790. The upper part of Park Street was begun to the design of John Palmer and later continued by John Pinch after 1808, though it was not fully completed. The street formerly ended at All Saints' Chapel and was originally intended to extend north-westwards as Regent Place.