Details
NEW KING STREET
(North side)
Nos.37-52 (Consec)
and attached railings
12/06/50
GV II
Sixteen terrace houses. 1764-1770 with C19 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rubble rear walls, slate roofs, some double Roman tile to lower parts of mansards.
PLAN: Long terrace. Entrance and staircase to one side, to right in Nos 37-40, and left in remainder.
EXTERIOR: Each has three storeys, attic and basement, and three windows wide, mainly plain sash, except where noted, some surrounds at first and second floors are splayed. Each has two replacement dormers, except Nos 46 and 52, with single in three lights. Twelve-pane sashes remain as follows: top floor Nos 49,50 and 51, ground floor Nos 49 and 51. Most basements have two twelve-pane, except Nos 37, 38, 42 and 43. No.42 has architraves to first and second floors, with cornices to first floor. Doors are six-panel, in Doric doorcases with pediments, paired to Nos 40/41. No.52 single bay house with tripartite sashes, eight:twelve:eight-pane at second floor and ten:fifteen:ten-pane to first floor, with balconette, and paired twelve-pane at ground floor. Returned end plain, rendered, further houses in terrace, lost in bombing. All have basements in squared rubble, some rendered, platband above ground floor, and modillion cornice with blocking course and parapet. Sixteen deep ashlar stacks, to coped party divisions. Rear mainly in rubble, but with ashlar cornice and parapet, each house with single dormer, and with some glazing bar sashes.
INTERIORS: Inspected in the 1980¿s, the houses overall retain many of their features.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Basement areas are contained by simple railings on stone curbs, returned to doorways, and with basement staircases to Nos 49-52.
HISTORY: Minor breaks in continuity, revealed at cornice level, but construction appears to have been originally rapid and consistent.
Listing NGR: ST7455764919
