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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 roof, shared brick chimneystacks with clay pots, brick parapet with cut granite coping. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, having cut granite plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, rendered reveals and replacement windows. Elliptical-headed door opening having rendered reveal, timber doorcase comprising panelled pilasters and cornice. Timber panelled door and teardrop fanlight. Shared granite steps with cast-iron bootscrape to platform. Basement area enclosed by brick plinth wall having granite coping and wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Half-height matching 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 historic 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 ironwork attests to the quality and skill in 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 1st 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.