Kenyon Terrace

Kenyon Terrace is a row of eight houses dating to around 1840, likely designed by Charles Reed. Constructed with an ashlar facade and a Welsh slate roof, the terrace was originally planned as a symmetrical arrangement of eight bays, with the outer and central sections projecting slightly. The outer houses feature side entrances within pedimented doorcases on their return elevations. The inner houses have a simpler plan with a single window and doorway on the ground floor. The ground floor is rusticated, and the doorways have four-panelled doors with overlights within emphasized architraves. Upper-floor windows have architraves with console brackets and stressed entablatures. The ground floor windows are twelve-pane sashes, renewed, while the outer and central houses have round-arched windows. The central pair of houses are further distinguished by Ionic entrance porches. A cornice with urn and scroll decoration runs along the top of the terrace, though some of the decoration is now missing. Gable and axial chimney stacks are present. The terrace forms part of the original development of Claughton, laid out by Reed for Sir William Jackson in the early 1840s and comprises one of three ranges built as a single development.