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Group of four terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former houses, built c.1800, now in use as flats. Pitched M-profile roof, hipped to north end having continuous parapet to front (east) elevation with cut granite capping. Shared brown brick and rendered chimneystacks having clay chimneypots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front of no.23 having recent red brick to second floor. Rendered walls to front and rear walls. Cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement level. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows to front of no.22. Replacement uPVC windows to other openings. Balconettes to first floor windows of no.22. Round-arched door openings having timber panelled doors and plain fanlights. Basement areas enclosed from pavement level by cut granite plinth wall with metal railings. Cast-iron coal hole covers set in granite paving to front. Rear access from Berkeley Avenue.

This group of houses makes an important contribution to the streetscape. Its proportions and details are shared with neighbouring properties on Nelson Street resulting in a coherent streetscape. Early fabric survives in the door surround to no.7 and fanlight of no.8. Nelson Street was laid out in the late nineteenth century by the Gardiner Estate. It connects two arterial routes leading to Gardiner's ambitious yet unrealised Royal Circus, planned for the north-west end of Eccles Street and Berkeley Road.