Number 6 And 7 And Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls, Piers And Gates

A pair of attached houses, originally dating to around 1830, and likely designed by Charles Dyer. They have been converted to offices in the late 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with a party wall and lateral stacks, topped with a slate roof. They follow a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a four-window front. The central four windows are stepped forward, with a banded ground floor and pilasters above, stepped at the corners and centre, featuring blind lattice sections over the windows. There is a cornice and parapet, with reduced sections in front of the attic dormers that have iron railings. The outer sections have rusticated ground floors, first-floor string courses and cornices, and cornices to the attic storeys. Entrances are framed by paired Tuscan columns supporting a cornice, with plate-glass overlights and two-leaf, six-panel doors. Mid-20th century single-storey additions are at each end, with thin cornices. The windows have architraves, with console pediments over the doorways. The ground floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes, while the upper floor outer windows were cut through the cornices and have 2/2-pane, horned sashes. A full-width stone balcony with lattice steel railings is at the first-floor level, matched by basket balconies on the second floor.

Inside, the entrance lobby features a rear, open-well staircase with cast-iron splat balusters, a curtail, foliate newel, and a wreathed rail. The basement stair has cast-iron stick balusters with beads. The doors have fluted architraves, and the plaster mouldings are in a Greek Revival style.

Attached to the property are cast-iron basement area railings, a front garden with rubble walls capped with rendered ashlar Pennant piers, spear-headed steel railings, and two-leaf gates. The houses are part of a notable group of villas extending west from Litfield Place, and include Camp House, also attributed to Dyer.