Numbers 68 To 82 With Attached Railings To Numbers 68 And 74

Numbers 68 to 82 form a terrace of eight houses with attached railings to numbers 68 and 74, dating from approximately 1806 to 1835. The houses are constructed of brick with a stucco finish, with a mansard slate roof visible on number 72, while the roofs of the other houses are hidden. The terrace features brick and stucco party-wall stacks with cornices, and an iron porch to number 72. Railings and balconies are also present.

The architectural style is of two storeys and basements, with attics to number 72, and a total of 16 first-floor windows, two per house. Stucco detailing includes rustication drawn into the voussoirs over the ground-floor openings of the five houses on the right (numbers 74 to 82), a continuous first-floor band, tooled architraves to the first-floor windows of the five houses on the right, a continuous frieze, cornice, and blocking course. The windows are mainly 6/6 sashes, with some 8/8 sashes in the basement level. The entrances consist of four on the left side and four on the right side, featuring 4- and 6-panel doors, some part-glazed, with fanlights above a number of the doors. Some fanlights are blind, while others have radial glazing, and others have overlights. The attics have c.1900 roof dormers.

The interior of the houses has not been inspected. First-floor balconies are present throughout the terrace, except at number 82, and feature varying decorative motifs, including rod-and-central-circle, rod-and-anthemion, lattice, and embellished rod and scroll friezes with central scroll panel motifs. The railings to number 74 have stick balusters to the side of the house and X-motif area railings. Lancet railings to the left, at number 68, extend for approximately 2 metres.

The terrace represents a complete row of early 19th-century single-fronted houses on Fairview Road, which was developed from around 1806 and situated on land formerly part of open fields that were enclosed by an Act of Parliament that same year.