56, Queen Square

No. 56 Queen Square is an attached house, now used as offices, built around 1833 by Henry Rumley. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and a pantile roof, featuring a double-depth plan in a Neoclassical style. The building has three storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. It is part of a regular terrace of similar houses, with the doorway located on the left side. The ground floor is banded, with panelled pilasters, and above are pilasters with carved anthemion capitals, a frieze, cornice, and parapet, with the centre section projecting forward. The doorcase includes fluted pilasters, an entablature, a cornice, a rectangular plate-glass fanlight, and a four-panel door with roundels. The ground-floor windows are set in shallow recessed surrounds, featuring 6/6-pane sashes with margin panes on the ground floor. The windows have consoles supporting pedimented lintels with acroteria and wreaths on the central first-floor window, while the others are plain. There are three dormers. The building was constructed following the destruction of Queen Square during the 1831 Reform Bill riots.