1-7, Prospect Terrace

Terrace of 7 houses. Mid-19th century, built for the London Lead Company. Constructed of coursed squared coarse sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; roof of graduated stone flags with roll-moulded ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Two storeys, seven wide bays.

Doors are mostly renewed and boarded. Numbers 4 and 5 have diamond-shaped glazed panels. Gabled stone hoods appear over numbers 2, 4 and 6; those to numbers 4 and 6 have iron rods supporting the stone hoods. Numbers 1 and 3 have iron round-headed trellis porches. All doors have flat stone lintels. Number 7 has its entrance on the side and a 20th-century glazed addition.

Windows are 16-pane sashes with similar lintels and projecting stone sills, except for number 1 which has 20th-century glazing in altered openings. Each house has a corniced ridge chimney at the left with panelled tapered square yellow pots. A similar chimney stands at the right end, probably for aesthetic reasons and without pots.

Set-back extensions are not of architectural interest.

This is a good example of houses with gardens built by the Lead Company for workers in the mines of Eggleston and Middleton, and in their smelt mill (now demolished) at Blackton, Eggleston.