Numbers 1 To 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings To Front

A terrace of eighteen houses, now in commercial use, forming the northeast range of Hamilton Square. The houses were built around 1825 by James Gillespie Graham. They are ashlar-faced over brick, with a Welsh slate roof. Each house is three stories high with an attic and basement. The design follows a double-depth plan, with a wide entrance hall and a single-room width to the ground floor; the staircase is positioned between the two rooms. The terrace is symmetrically planned, featuring projecting outer pavilions and a stepped projecting central section of four bays. The basement storey is rusticated throughout. The end pavilions are emphasized by round-arched windows on the ground floor and entrances recessed within porches with Doric shafts and a giant Doric order of attached columns and entablatures. Stressed architraves feature over the doorways of the longer inner ranges, and engaged shafts are used in the central sections. The windows are 12-pane sash windows (some renewed), with entablatures above the first-floor windows in the outer and central bays, and cast-iron acanthus motif balconies. A cornice and attic storey are topped with a secondary cornice and blocking course. There are large axial stacks. Spearhead railings enclose the basement area, along with sphinx boot scrapers. Contemporary features, including staircases, survive in several of the houses.

This terrace is part of the Hamilton Square development, a significant example of formal planning initiated by John Laird in 1825.