Boyce's Buildings

Boyce’s Buildings comprise a pair of attached houses, originally designed as three, dating to 1763. They were likely designed by Thomas Paty and built for Thomas Boyce. The buildings are rendered over brick with limestone dressings, featuring party walls, gable stacks, and a pantile mansard roof. The design is in the Mid Georgian style, with a double-depth plan.

The building is arranged over three storeys, with an attic and basement, and has a five-window range. Originally a composed terrace of three houses, the right-hand one was demolished. The middle three windows of each house project slightly, with a pedimented central section to the former central house, displaying a dated monogram. The façade has a first floor plat band, a sill band, a cornice, and a parapet. Openings have Gibbs surrounds. The doorways feature tall keys to a pediment, three-pane overlights, and six-panel doors. The ground floor windows have three stepped keys to 6/6-pane sashes. The first floor has taller 9/9-pane sashes on either side of the central window, accompanied by wrought-iron basket balconies.

The houses were originally subdivided by coped party walls. No. 44 has plate-glass sashes. The rear of the building includes two semicircular-arched stair lights with interlacing glazing bars.

The interior of No. 40 includes a rebuilt rear central open-well stair, with few surviving period details. Boyce’s Buildings are historically significant as the first of Clifton's terraces. The end house was demolished in 1872.