Looking across to Nos. 1-4 Almeida Street

At about the same time as the construction of the Lit & Sci in 1837, Nos. 1-4 Wellington (now Almeida) Street (two linked pairs of semi-detached houses) were built by the Wilson estate as part of an intended new square. They had been built by 1838, being listed as empty in that year’s rate books. License to demise for up to 99 years in respect of the land behind the three Upper Street houses and 40 feet to the north had been granted to Stephen and Josiah Wilson as trustees of the Wilson estate in 1836 “in consideration of building substantial brick dwelling houses of not less than the third rate or class and each house not to be of a less annual value than £40”.

They were listed Grade II in 1972 along with the Lit & Sci building on the initiative of Laurence Isaacson, an architect then resident at No. 4.