Numbers 2 To 8 Attached Railings To Numbers 2,4 And 8, Piers To Number 4 And Wall And Pier To Number 8

This is a terrace of four houses at Numbers 2 to 8, built around 1820 to 1834, as shown on Merrett’s Map of 1834. The terrace includes attached area railings to Numbers 2, 4, and 8, piers to Number 4, and a wall and pier to Number 8. The construction is ashlar over brick, with the ground floor stuccoed except for the right side. The houses have brick party-wall stacks, a concealed roof, and iron porches, balconies, and railings. The right end has a brick wall with stone copings.

The houses are double-depth with side stairwells and two-storey service ranges to the rear, with the end houses projecting forward. The front has three storeys over a basement, with ten first-floor windows arranged in a 2:3:3:2 pattern. Detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor of the end houses and tooled architraves to the first-floor windows, with friezes and cornices. Full-height pilasters with sunk panels break forward on the first and second floors. The houses feature 6/6 sash windows, with margin-lights to those at the end, tall 6/6 sashes elsewhere on the first floor. The second floor has 6/6 sashes to the centre houses and 8/8 sashes to the ends. Tripartite windows are present on the ground floor of the end houses, with 6/6 sashes flanking 2/2 sashes, arched heads where original. The entrances have steps leading to five-panel doors with raised and fielded upper panels and flush lower panels, with sidelights and overlights, some with margin-lights. Basement windows are 3/3 sashes. The rear of the house retains 6/6 sash windows, with a staircase sash of 9/9 with margin-lights on the right return. Original joinery remains inside, including panelled shutters, though the interior has not been fully inspected.

The first-floor balconies have a Carron Company double heart and anthemion motif. The porch to the right-end house has a lozenge motif on the uprights and frieze, topped with a tent roof. Area railings feature an X-motif to the left and a circle-and-lozenge motif to the right. Arrowhead railings extend from Number 4 to coped piers with an ornate overthrow. To the right end, a wall approximately 2 meters high and 3 meters long runs to a pier, with a square plan, shaped cornice, and capping.