Numbers 1 To 11 And 15 And Attached Railings To Numbers 1 To 9

This is a terrace of seven houses, now used as flats and a hotel, with attached area railings to the first nine properties. Numbers 1 to 11 and 15 were built between 1833 and 1834 by the architect Robert Stokes. The houses are constructed with stucco over brick, featuring concealed roof, brick and stucco party wall stacks, and iron railings and balconies.

The houses have a mainly side entrance layout, with service ranges to the rear. They are three storeys high, with a single-storey entrance bay to the left. There are a total of 19 first-floor windows (three per house, except for Number 15 which has one). Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor with voussoirs over openings, a first-floor band, a crowning architrave, frieze, dentil cornice, and blocking course. Windows are primarily 6/6 sash windows where original, although the house on the left has one tripartite window on each floor, and 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, with a 6/6 window between 2/2 sashes on the second floor. Basement windows are 8/8 sashes where original. All windows are in plain reveals with sills.

The entrances (four to the left and two to the right, and to the right return) have flights of roll-edged steps leading to 4-panel doors, some with overlights and margin-lights. The entrance on the left is recessed within a solid porch with pilasters, frieze, and cornice. The right return features a three-window range with a central entrance in a distyle fluted Doric porch, containing 4-panel studded double doors with an overlight and a solid arcaded balustrade on either side. The left return has blind windows and 6/6 sashes.

Interiors retain original joinery, including panelled shutters to some windows, and original plasterwork such as cornices and ceiling roses. The buildings were constructed as part of a wider development for Joseph Pitt between 1825 and 1842, with the overall layout designed by John Forbes. Stokes acquired Numbers 1 and 7, and Number 9 was to be built to a design by William Gurner of Stroud. General Sir James ‘Buster’ Brown (1839-96) lived at Number 3.

The continuous balustrade, except to the right, features anthemions and embellished rods, inspired by Henry Shaw's design for Upper Woburn Place. Numbers 3 and 5 have verandahs with anthemions to the uprights and tent roofs, with openwork friezes to Number 3. There is an ornate low balustrade above the porch. Area railings, gates, and railings to the sides of the steps have spearheads with covered vase finials to the stanchions. The right return includes scrolled window boxes to the second floor. The buildings form a significant group along Pittville Lawn.