2-10, Great Norwood Street

The terrace at 2-10 Great Norwood Street consists of five houses, now shops with flats above, dating to circa 1840, with later additions and alterations. The construction is stucco over brick, featuring concealed roofs. The three-storey façade has ten first-floor windows arranged as 1:2:2:2:3. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves to the windows, a moulded band at the second floor level, and a crowning frieze and cornice where original, topped by a continuous low coped parapet. The first and second floors have 2/2 and 1/1 lugged sash windows, set in plain reveals and featuring sills, some with feet. The ground floor has glazed shop fronts with cornices supported by corbel brackets. The entrances vary; No.2 has a C20 door with overlight, No.4 has a six-panel door with sidelights and a fanlight with radial glazing bars, and the remaining entrances are C20 replacements. The left return side of the building features a triple first-floor window with 1/1 horned sashes, a tooled architrave, a cornice on corbel brackets, and a sill on feet. A similar pair of sashes is located on the second floor, also within a tooled architrave. The interior has not been inspected. The terrace occupies a prominent site, forming the entrance to Great Norwood Street from Suffolk Road, and is part of a notable street of mostly 1830s and 1840s terrace houses.