St James Terrace

St James's Terrace comprises four terraced houses built between 1840 and 1843. The houses are constructed of finely-jointed red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with white lime pointing, and have Welsh slate roofs. A cast-iron balustrade runs along the front of the balconies.

The houses are three storeys high, each with two windows on the first floor. Each house has a plinth and two stone steps leading to a panelled front door with an overlight, encased in a wooden architrave and reveal. Number 3 has a plain overlight, while the others have margin bars. A canted bay window is to the left of the door in each house, with a brick base, stone sill, and plate-glass sashes in wooden architraves, all beneath a plain frieze with a bold fillet. Number 3 has a later wooden bow window with glazing bars replacing the original.

A continuous balcony runs across the front of the houses, supported by bay windows and moulded wooden brackets, with a moulded wooden fascia and a cast-iron balustrade with a wooden handrail. The balcony floor is paved with sandstone, with a boarded underside. The balustrade features baluster principals with octagonal columns, alternating scrolled panels, and plain bars.

Segmental-headed French windows, with glazing bars, are found on the first floor, set within wood architraves and raised brick surrounds that feature rubbed-brick arches with projecting keystones. The second floor has segmental-headed 3/6 sash windows in similar raised, keyed surrounds with stone sills with recessed central sections. Windows at numbers 3 and 9 have been replaced in the 20th century, but remain within the original openings. A stone tablet inscribed "ST JAMES'S TERRACE" is present on the far left. Prominent fluted modillion brackets support a corniced wooden gutter. Each house has corniced roof stacks to both the front and rear.

Internally, the houses feature moulded dado rails and cornices in the halls and main rooms, panelled doors in architraves, and an open-well staircase with plain balusters, barley-twist newels, and a swept grip handrail. The bay windows include hung sash shutters and original sashes, though the small-pane glazing bars were removed in the later 19th century.

The terrace was extended shortly afterwards with numbers 11-15, and it forms a group with the slightly later balconied terrace in Pelham Road.