Numbers 1-59 Including Lake House, Garnett House, Hodgkin House, Gurney House And Embleton House

Numbers 1 to 59, including Lake House, Garnett House, Hodgkin House, Gurney House, and Embleton House, form an elongated row of houses built between 1829 and 1834 by Thomas Oliver for Richard Grainger. The design is Classical in style. The buildings are constructed from sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and chimneys of ashlar, brick, and render. The alignment is almost north-south, with the north range at an oblique angle to the west range, and slight level variations to follow the slope of the ground.

The three-storey buildings, with basements at the south end, have a total of 212 bays distributed across four ranges: 69 bays on the west, 36 on the north, 86 on the east, and 21 on the south. The end and central pavilions feature a rusticated ground floor and ashlar basements, with a giant Corinthian order above. Pilasters delineate the bays of the corner pavilions and the long ranges, with three-bay returns on the north side; end pilasters to the three-bay returns on the south side. Similarly, pilasters define the bays of the west (3:5:3) and east (3:6:3) central pavilions, with the central blocks projecting under parapets bearing a low relief panel reading “LEAZES TERRACE”. The north pavilion, of 1:6:1 bays, has a pedimented centre with a dentilled cornice above an ornate rinceau frieze; similar friezes and modillioned cornices are present on other pavilions.

There are steps leading to eight-panelled doors with overlights; the doors on the north side have glazing bars. Plain reveals surround the sash windows, most of which incorporate glazing bars, with aprons in the pavilions, except for the top-floor moulded sills. Similar top-floor sills are found in the intermediate sections, which feature anthemion-patterned cast iron balconies on the first floor, except on the east side. Slender balustrades are present on the central balconies of the north and west sections. Round-arched carriage entrances are located at the centre of the plain sections of the east range. The roof is low-pitched. At the time of survey, numbers 31 to 47 on the east range were undergoing restoration.