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Terraced two-bay two-storey house over exposed basement, built c.1830, as one of terrace of seven houses. Now in multiple occupancy with two-storey flat-roofed rear extension. Flat roof hidden behind parapet wall with granite coping and rendered brick 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 replacement uPVC windows. 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 and four concrete steps enclosed by original wrought-iron handrail to either side. Front garden now paved in concrete, open to street and used for parking. Rendered garage structure to rear site with steel doors.

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. 506 being one of five still retaining their original domestic appearance. The house retains its original doorcase and fanlight and contributes to the collective elements of this modest terrace while helping to retain the early domestic appearance of this stretch of the streetscape.