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Terraced two-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1840 as one of terrace of eight. M-profile pitched slate roof having terracotta ridge tiles, shared brick chimneystack with clay pots, and rendered parapet having cut granite coping. Rendered walls, with cut granite plinth course over channelled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings having granite sills and replacement windows. Timber panelled shutters visible to interior. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and cornice. Timber panelled door and teardrop fanlight. Shared granite steps and platform. Basement area bounded by brick plinth wall having granite coping, surmounted by wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Half-height matching gate and replacement gate to basement. Square-headed basement door beneath entrance steps. Set back from road, with basement-level front garden.

This house retains its facade composition and traditional features, including its door and ironmongery, which are characteristic of its mid-nineteenth-century date. The shared scale and features of these small genteel townhouses contribute to the unified residential neighbourhood character of the locality. The elegant iron-work attests to the quality and artisanship in the mass production of nineteenth-century ironwork. Heytesbury Street forms part of an early Victorian neighbourhood located to the west of Camden Street. Named after Baron Heytesbury, Viceroy 1844-6, the street was nearing completion by 1861. This group of houses had already been begun and is depicted on what was then New Bride Street on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1838. The terrace of buildings is historically called 'BellVilla Heytesbury' as named on the plaque on the facade of No. 91.