5 And 6, Pipe Lane

A pair of attached houses, now offices, dating from around 1710 and restored in 1992. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, have a brick party wall and stacks, and a pantile double-pile roof. They are built in an Early Georgian style, with three storeys and a two-window range to each house. The pair is symmetrical, featuring moulded strips to the ground and first floors, and a coved cornice to the moulded eaves. Each house has an outer doorway with a moulded flat timber canopy, panelled soffit, narrow brackets, overlight, and a six-panel door with raised panels. The windows are 9/9-pane sashes with thick bars, with a narrower bar on the second-floor left-hand window, which is horned. Basement hatches are also present. The shop front of No.6 dates from the early 19th century and includes a left-hand door and an eight-pane window beneath the cornice. There are two hipped dormers. The interior remains largely original, retaining original glazing to the flush sashes and a coved cornice. The houses are a notable example of their type, and their construction reflects contemporary covenants restricting flush frames and wood cornices following the 1707 London Building Act, which was intended to regulate construction quality.