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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830, as one of terrace of seven. Flat roof behind parapet wall with rendered coping and rendered chimneystacks to both party walls with clay pots. Painted rendered walls and rendered plinth course over rendered basement walls. Square-headed window openings with painted granite sills, patent rendered reveals and original six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows without horns. Six-over-six pane windows to rear first floor and round-headed six-over-six pane window to stairwell. Round-headed door opening with rendered reveal and recessed painted masonry doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by panelled pilasters supporting fluted lintel cornice and original petal fanlight with historic glass. Door opens onto concrete platform with inset tiles enclosed by original wrought-iron handrail to either side. Four masonry steps open onto concrete footpath through front garden enclosed by wrought-iron railing on rendered plinth wall with matching wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rear site bounded to Fitzgibbon Lane by rubble stone wall with timber lintel and early vertically sheeted timber door providing access.

North Circular Road was laid out by the 1780s but not developed until the early nineteenth century. This terrace of seven houses appears to be some of the earliest developments on this stretch of the street, with No. 510 being one of five still retaining their original domestic appearance. Although the façade has been rendered, the intact doorcase, windows and front railings are of considerable importance to the appeal of the terrace and together with the continued single occupancy, greatly contribute to the early residential character of this part of the streetscape.