1-24, Park Place West

A terrace of 24 houses built between 1850 and 1854. The houses are constructed of garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. They are two storeys high, with basements in some cases. Each house originally had three windows, though some are wider. The houses step down the hillside.

The houses at the right-hand end (Nos. 1-5) are at the highest point and feature distinctive Sunderland-style panelled front doors. These doors fold back to reveal the inner doors and overlights within doorcases framed by large, fluted Ionic pilasters and entablatures, although the surround has been removed from No. 5. The remaining houses have similar doors with Tuscan pilaster and entablature surrounds. Several houses (Nos. 12, 13, and 21) have central, flanking canted bay windows. The other houses have single canted bay ground-floor windows, which are framed by pilasters or architraves, rising from basement canted bays in some instances. The first floor has bracketed cornices and projecting stone sills to the sash windows, which are set in plain reveals. Most windows have horizontal glazing bars, some being 4-pane sashes. Replacement glazing includes mullioned and transomed casements at Nos. 2 and 3, and pivoting lights. Roman lettering is incised on a street name plaque at the right end. The roof is hipped at the right and features transverse ridge and right-end chimneys. Dormers are present on some houses, with canted bays displaying slate-hung sides and hipped roofs, some gabled, and others round-headed. A 20th-century or altered dormer is visible at No. 2. The return side to Park Road has two windows, the left being blind, and a single canted bay window on the ground floor. A wide canted dormer is visible in the roof.