No.14 And Attached Railings

Two houses (Nos 14 and 15 Portland Place), now converted to flats, dating from around 1786.

The building comprises two adjoining Georgian properties. The house to the left (No.14) faces north onto Portland Place, while the house to the right (formerly No.15, now part of No.14) has its main front facing north-west towards the triangle of Portland Place, with a narrow north elevation. The left-hand house has a staircase positioned to its front; the right-hand house's staircase was probably relocated.

Both properties feature limestone ashlar to their front elevations, with rubble plinths below basement windows to the left and rubble to rear elevations. Both have parapeted mansard roofs with artificial slate to front and rear. The party walls are coped, with two stacks partly rebuilt in reconstituted stone at the far left. At the junction between the houses is a small ashlar stack with some early clay pots to the front, and at the far right is a large ashlar stack also with some early clay pots.

The left-hand house is three storeys with attic and basement, arranged in a two-bay three-window range. The first floor has two paired plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals to the left, and a similar window to the right with 19th-century leaded lights in the upper sash. The ground floor has two paired similar sashes with a continuous stone sill to the left, and to the right a six-panel door with flush, fielded and single glazed panels with bordered glazing in a beaded plain reveal. A small plate glass horned sash in a plain reveal with stone sill sits to the right of the door. A pennant-paved crossover flush with the pavement has a cast iron footscraper. The basement contains a six-over-six sash in a plain reveal with stone sill, and a six-panel door with recessed and glazed panels beneath the crossover, with no area steps. A triple dormer with plate glass sashes crowns the roof. A band course runs over the ground floor, with weathered sill bands to the first and second floors, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous with No.13 Portland Place.

The right-hand house has three storeys, attic and basement, with a three-bay five-window range to the north-west front. The first floor has two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with timber blind boxes to the left, and three grouped plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals to the right with heads forming a continuous segmental arch, with a continuous 19th-century timber blind box. The second floor has two plate glass sashes in splayed reveals to the left and three grouped plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals to the right. The ground floor has a plate glass sash in a splayed reveal with stone sill at the far left, a similar horned sash in a blocked former doorway to the left, and three grouped windows to the right with continuous segmental arched heads and blind box similar to the first floor. The basement has three grouped plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill to the right, and one similar sash to the left. A pennant-paved crossover marks the position of a former door at the centre left, and two 20th-century area staircases are present. One double and one quadruple dormer with two-over-two sashes light the roof. A band course over the ground floor, weathered sill bands to the first and second floors, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet continue across the narrow north elevation to the left.

The rear elevation of the left-hand house features Venetian windows to the ground and first floors, with the first-floor centre window retaining early upper sashes with intersecting glazing bars. Three grouped windows to the second floor have been altered. A 19th-century verandah is attached to the ground floor, and 20th-century extensions extend to the ground floor and basement. The right-hand house has two 19th or 20th-century windows to each floor to the rear.

The subsidiary features include attached wrought iron railings and gates to the left-hand house with urn heads and urn finials, and to the right-hand house with heads cut down but some urn finials remaining. A 19th-century gate and railings to the crossover mark the former front door.