No. 24 With Railings

No. 24 is a terrace house built around 1770 and altered in the late 19th century. It features limestone ashlar on the front, rubble at the rear, and a slate roof. The house has a double depth plan with a broad octagonal bay added to the rear.

The exterior consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with the rear developed to a full four storeys due to the slope of the site. There are two windows with replacement sashes, six-pane dormers with segmental heads, and a large twelve-pane window, one with a balconette, breaking through a platband. The ground floor has channelling and voussoirs, an arched nine-pane window with radial bars, and a twelve-pane window in the basement.

To the right, there is a square porch at the pavement edge with a pair of three-panel doors featuring incised pilasters and decorative rounded heads. The porch has blind openings with segmental heads on the returns, Greek key friezes, a cornice with a blocking course, and a slight pediment at the front. The building has a plinth, platband, moulded cornice, blocking course, and a coped party division to the right, along with large brick stacks, one raised in ashlar on the left.

At the rear, there are two small two-light raking dormers above a two-light casement leading to the flat top of the bay, which has a railing on the parapet and an entablature, along with a large two-light casement with a transom above a large twelve-pane window. The basement area is enclosed by simple spearhead railings that stop at the porch, set on an ashlar curb with a rounded top.

This property was built as one of a pair with No. 25 and is part of a terrace that shows minor variations due to the speculative nature of its original construction. It is the only house in the terrace (Nos 17-26) that has undergone significant external alterations.