Canning Terrace Including Cemetery Gateway

Canning Terrace comprises a cemetery gatehouse flanked by ranges of almshouses, constructed between 1837 and 1840 by SS Rawlinson for the General Cemetery Company. The complex was restored around 1985 and is built of stucco and brick, with slate roofs and corniced stacks, in a debased Classical style, featuring dentillated cornices. The symmetrical facade includes a central square gatehouse with a recessed, rusticated centre containing a round carriage arch beneath a dentillated cornice. Flanking the gatehouse are ranges of almshouses with pedimented centres. The gatehouse is two storeys high with three bays on one side and one bay in the centre; the side bays have single windows, round-arched on the first floor. A central clock tower rises above, topped by a round-arched bell turret with cross pediments, featuring large stacks on either side. The rear elevation is similar in design. Two pairs of cast-iron gates, marked “Falconer & Co., Derby, 1838”, stand under the archway, accompanied by short flanking railings. The almshouses have projecting centres and three symmetrically placed stacks. They feature round-arched ground floor openings with moulded heads and a lintel band; in each bay are two slender glazing bar windows flanking doors. First floor windows are tripartite, with a narrow central light, with shouldered blanks flanking the central window. The terrace is named for George Canning, Prime Minister in 1827.