Park Mansions And Attached Front Basement Area Railings

Park Mansions is a terrace of six houses built in 1835, possibly designed by Henry Goodridge. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, have party wall stacks, and the roof is not visible. They are arranged with a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a single-window range on each front. The terrace has moulded coping and three-storey, windowless blocks projecting across the party wall between each pair of houses. These projecting blocks feature tetrastyle pilastrades with carved capitals on shallow corbels, a moulded frieze, and a pediment, with carved lion heads to the returns. Numbers 18 and 19 have had a third storey added in place of the original pediment.

The window openings have splayed surrounds and contain 6/6-pane sash windows. Two doorways are located in the middle of the terrace; the doorway to number 18 is blocked. Numbers 18 and 19 have had a fourth storey added.

The interior features an entrance lobby leading to a central passage and a top-lit, open dogleg staircase with turned balusters. Original features include modillion cornices and six-panel doors.

Attached to the front are cast-iron railings with a spear-headed design, enclosing the basement areas. The design of Park Mansions is striking and unusual. Henry Goodridge also designed the original Pro-Cathedral to the rear of Meridian Place.