Gloucester Row (Terrace) With Area Railings

Nos. 98 and 99 Gloucester Row are two houses located at the end of a terrace, built around 1790. They have a rendered exterior and slate roofs, standing three storeys high with an attic and basement. Each house features three windows, all of which are plain sashes. No. 98 has two large hipped dormers with 6-pane sashes, while No. 99 has two smaller dormers with plain sashes. The first-floor sashes extend to floor level and open onto a full-width balcony supported by cast-iron brackets, adorned with original decorative cast-iron balustrades.

In No. 99, the second-floor windows have been extended down through the sill band, and this property also features a late Victorian canted oriel window on the ground floor. No. 98 includes a 9-pane sash window in the basement, while No. 99 has a plain sash. To the left of each house, there is a panelled door beneath a shallow plain fanlight, set in half-column doorcases with flat entablatures; the door of No. 99 is obscured by a 20th-century illuminated sign. The ground floor has a rusticated finish, and there is a sill band on the second floor, along with a moulded cornice, blocking course, and parapet, topped by two deep stacks on the central party wall.

The doors are accessed by steps with nosings, and the basement areas are enclosed by original spearhead railings that return to the doorways, featuring standards and a gate with steps leading down to the basements. These two houses are part of an original group of eight, with the central units, Nos. 96 and 97, being slightly grander in scale, having higher parapets. The former No. 100 was demolished and replaced in the late 19th century. The alterations made to the ground and second-floor windows of No. 99 are similar to those in No. 95.