Refurbished early to mid-nineteenth-century two-storey houses at 42-54 Portland Grove (formerly Portland Place North), Stockwell. On the left, numbers 52-54 are semi-detached, and numbers 46-50 form a terrace with blank basements and steps leading up to the front doors. They are all Grade II listed, listing numbers 1064966 and 1064965. In the foreground, steps lead up to the ground floor and down to the basement of number 42. In 1821 the lease of this land was purchased by William Bennett, silversmith, of Bartholomew Close. It was divided into five lots and let on building leases between 1822 and 1830 to James Blake of Helmet Row, Old Street, carpenter and timber merchant, John Barnes of Pentonville, carpenter, and Richard Howard of St Mary, Newington, carpenter and builder. Blake had three of these leases. Each lease required the builder to erect four or more houses at a cost of not less than £3,000, making a total of £15,000 for the whole estate, and to construct new roads, including Portland Grove.