No. 14 And Attached Railings

This is a house, now converted into flats, dating from approximately 1786, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is attributed to John Palmer. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is of rubble construction. It has a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof, covered with Welsh slate; the front has smaller slates, with larger slates to the rear. A coped party wall features two ashlar stacks to the right, and a staircase is situated at the front.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and presents a three-window facade. The first floor contains three six-over-nine sash windows with horns, set in splayed reveals with stone sills, and wrought iron balconettes to the centre and right. The second floor has three six-over-six sash windows with horns, in plain reveals. The ground floor features two six-over-six horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills to the right, and a six-panel door with beaded, fielded and glazed panels, a cast iron ring knocker in a beaded reveal, and a zinc porch with panelled sides and curved brackets supporting an ogee hood with pierced cresting above and below a frieze with applied rosette ornament, likely cast lead. There are two steps leading to a crossover paved with concrete. The basement has two six-over-six horned sashes in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill; the crossover is partly infilled beneath with ashlar, and includes C20 timber area steps. A double dormer features plate glass horned sashes. Other exterior details include a weathered sill band to the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation has simple wrought iron balconettes to the first and second floors, glazing bar sashes, plate glass sashes to the dormers, and a lead hopperhead at the eaves.

The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with urn heads and urn finials on limestone bases.

The house was developed alongside Portland Place, by John Hensley. Its construction was linked to leases taken out on land demised for three lives in 1782, and was subsequently let out on building leases in 1785. Land ownership details and further historical context are documented in Hensley Family Papers and an earlier survey of Walcot Parish.