14-17, Pierrepont Street

This is a group of houses at 14-17 Pierrepont Street, built around 1745. They were designed by John Wood the Elder and described by him as "a row of fifth-rate houses of the grander sort." The building is limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs.

The buildings form the right-hand end of a terrace of thirty-eight bays, encompassing numbers 7-17 Pierrepont Street and number 6 North Parade. The design is in the Palladian style. Comprising three storeys, attics, and cellars, the houses are generally three bays wide, though number 14 has an additional bay to the left (included in the listing for St James's Portico). Shop fronts occupy the ground floor; number 17’s shop front, dating from after 1926, is partially shared with number 6 North Parade. The shop front of number 15 incorporates a design style of 1928, similar to that of number 14 Cheap Street. Number 14 features a six-panelled door with a pedimented doorcase supported by Tuscan pilasters. Number 17 has a rusticated doorway dating from around 1910. The first-floor windows are late 19th-century plate glass sashes with cornice heads and dropped sills, except for number 14. The second floor has late 18th-century six-over-six sash windows, with number 17 having a plain sash. A modillion cornice is followed by a parapet and a mansard roof with two flat-topped dormers; number 14 contains one dormer. Ashlar stacks are present, with decorative pots on number 15. Number 14 has a three-window, L-shaped elevation facing Pierrepont Place, featuring six-over-six sashes, and is also part of the listing for St James's Portico.

The interior has not been inspected. These houses were part of John Wood’s incomplete scheme for the Duke of Kingston’s estate, developed between 1740 and 1748, meant to create a formal link between North and South Parade, running parallel to Duke Street. The intention was for Duke Street to lead to Wood's ambitious, unrealised plan for a ‘Royal Forum’ to the southeast of the old city walls. The houses have undergone some alteration but remain a significant part of a larger urban improvement scheme.