Douro Terrace Including Douro House (No. 7) With Steps And Railings

Douro Terrace, including Douro House (No. 7), is a terrace of houses, most of which are now used as offices, with steps and railings in front. It was built around 1854 by G.A. Middlemiss for R.J. Moore. The structure is made of garden wall bond brick with a painted ashlar basement and ashlar and stucco dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof, although Nos. 4 and 5 have synthetic slates that imitate Welsh slate. Each house has a basement and two storeys, with most featuring three windows, while No. 3 has two windows. No. 7 has three windows on its left return. The basement showcases banded rustication.

Nos. 3, 4, and 5 have doors on the left side within heavy Doric doorcases, supported by engaged fluted columns and topped with entablatures featuring a triglyph frieze. Bow windows are present on the right side at the basement and ground floor. The first-floor sash windows have a sill band and horizontal glazing bars beneath wedge-shaped stuccoed lintels. No. 6 has had alterations, with windows inserted under lintels made of end-on headers. No. 7 features a later square bay on the ground floor, with first-floor sashes that have vertical glazing bars, architraves, and cornices.

The eaves frieze and cornice, which is dentilled on No. 6, sit below a low-pitched roof with ridge chimneys. Gabled dormers have been added to Nos. 3 and 4, with No. 4 featuring four round-arched lights. The left return of No. 7 continues from the basement of the main terrace, featuring a central Tuscan porch with keyed arches, tripartite square and canted bay windows, and two segment-headed dormers. The bull-nosed steps leading to Nos. 3 and 5 have been renewed for No. 4, with cast-iron balustrades present at Nos. 3 and 4.