No. 3 And Attached Railings

This is a house, completed in 1791 by John Palmer and built by Thomas Bartlett. It is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, with rubble to the rear. The roof is a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof covered in Welsh slate, with a coped gable end to the left and two ashlar stacks, some with early clay pots. A staircase is situated at the front.

The house is three storeys, with an attic and basement, and has a two-window front. The first floor has two six/six sash windows, with three fixed panes added below in plain reveals, stone sills, and wrought iron balconettes. The second floor has two six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. The ground floor has one four/four horned sash window in a plain reveal with a stone sill and a wrought iron balconette to the left, and a six-panel door with flush and raised and fielded panels, with the two upper panels glazed, set within a pedimented Doric doorcase with an attached wrought iron gate. A pennant-paved crossover is present, alongside a small 20th-century window to the right of the door. The basement has a six/six sash window with a stone sill, a plank door with an overlight, and a small window within an ashlar infilling beneath the crossover; there are no area steps. A single dormer window has a six/six sash. The exterior features a band course over the ground floor, a frieze, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. A lead hopperhead and downpipe are visible on the left. The rear elevation includes three 19th-century plate glass horned sashes, narrower on the left and right, with continuous stone sills to the ground, first and second floors, a wrought iron balcony with a zinc roof to the first floor, and small 20th-century windows to the left on each floor, as well as a double dormer.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Attached to the front are wrought iron railings with shaped cast tops on limestone bases, along with a 19th-century wire trellis screen by the front door.

This house was part of an incomplete development of St James’s Square, on land leased from Sir Peter Rivers Gay. A lower part of Park Street is one of four diagonal approaches to St James’s Square. A lower lease of a messuage was granted to Thomas Bartlett from 30th of June to 16th of August 1791 for a term of 96 years, beginning on the 24th of June 1790.