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Terraced three-bay single-storey house over raised basement, built c. 1840. M-profile pitched slate roof, brick chimneystack with clay pots, rendered parapet with cut granite coping. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, having cut granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening having part of timber doorcase with panelled pilasters remaining. Timber panelled door and teardrop fanlight. Granite steps with cast-iron bootscrape to platform. Basement area enclosed by rendered plinth wall having granite coping and wrought-iron railings with decorative cast-iron collars. Half-height matching gate to basement. Square-headed basement doors beneath entrance steps. Set back from road, with basement-level front garden.

This house retains its original facade composition and historic features, including its door and ironmongery, which are characteristic of its mid-nineteenth-century date. This house is distinctive as a double-fronted house and varies from the prevalent two-bay typology of the adjoining terrace, although it shares building features with its neighbours. The elegant ironwork stands as a testament to the quality and skill of nineteenth century mass produced metalwork. Heytesbury Street is 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.