Numbers 214 To 220 And Attached Forecourt Walls

Numbers 214 to 220 and their attached forecourt walls form part of a planned terrace of houses with a palace frontage and returned street corner frontage, now converted to flats, dating to the 1870s. The building is constructed of stucco, originally with slate roofs, and features rendered axial stacks. It follows a double-depth plan, with numbers 214 and 216 incorporating a central break for a pedimented mansion house front, and number 1 Leigham Street (on the right-hand return) featuring a forward break for the entrance bay.

The building has three storeys plus an attic storey over a basement, extending to an overall 7-window front plus a 2-window return. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes to the first and second floors, with tripartite windows in the pedimented forward break. The first-floor window of this break has a small pediment, and the attic-storey pediment features a Venetian window, alongside paired round-arched lights to the first floor of the right-hand return. The ground floor retains original 12-pane sashes or tripartite sashes within segmental arched openings. The stucco detailing includes rustication to the ground and first floors of the pedimented bay, alongside rusticated quoins, mid-floor bands, and first-floor sill strings linked to balustraded balconies. Moulded architraves and console hoods are present on the first floor, with bracketed sills on the second floor. A moulded cornice with modillions repeats above the second floor and on the pediment. Pairs of round-arched doorways are flanked by Tuscan half-columns, each featuring a shared moulded entablature above. The doorways of the central houses have paired windows between them, and the left-hand doorway is positioned to the left of the main break. They retain panelled doors and plain glazed fanlights. The interior has not been inspected, but is likely to retain significant features. Stuccoed forecourt walls with panelled or turned balustrades are also present as subsidiary features. The building represents a good quality design within the Classical stucco tradition, as a late and distinguished example of stuccoed terrace design contributing significantly to an important planned group.