Corporation Buildings And Attached Walls

A terrace of local authority flats completed in 1898, situated on the south side of How Street, Barbican. The building is constructed of painted brick with stone sills, concrete floors, stairs and landings, and has slate roofs with projecting eaves, clay tile cresting, and shaped finials. There are seven gables, each featuring collared and arch-braced trusses over the paired windows of two of the three fronts, and deep brick axial stacks with stepped cornices. A plaque commemorating the building's construction is attached to numbers 115-131 on Vauxhall Street. The flats are split horizontally for occupation, with additional rear access to the upper floor.

The two-storey terrace steps up the street. The exterior features stepped, corbelled segmental arches over alternating paired and single 9/2-pane horned sash windows. The ground floor has a plinth and a shaped string above the openings, with similar arches above paired sashes, alternating with paired doorways featuring plain segmental arches. A single doorway is present to the right, and there's a doorway to number 15 on the return street to the left. Tall overlights are above 4-panel doors. The rear elevation is largely unaltered and includes dwarf boundary walls linked to flying concrete staircases with steel balustrades leading to landings and doorways with 4-pane overlights and partly glazed doors, flanked by sash windows and small lights. The window and door arrangement is similar to that of the ground floor.

The interiors were not inspected. Subsidiary features include brick walls to the street frontage. The terrace forms part of a complete block of practically unaltered early local authority housing.