The Terrace

This is a row of houses, dating to around 1840, possibly designed by J.A. Hansom. The houses are rendered, with a slate roof, and form an L-shaped layout with a set-back section on the western arm between numbers 5 and 6. There are projecting entrance bays in the centre of both western steps and to the left and right of the central portion of the southern arm. The houses are three storeys high and feature a horizontally-rusticated ground floor, a moulded band above the ground floor, a moulded string course above the first floor and a moulded cornice to a parapet that hides the roof. Raised pilaster strips rise through the first and second floors to support blank pediments on the parapet above the entrances. Various stacks are placed irregularly on the roof. The western section has three windows on each step, with a single window in the intermediate portion, and six windows on the southern arm. The windows are glazing bar sashes, shallower on the second floor, set in architrave surrounds. There are pediments above the first floor windows of the entrance bays, and square recesses with modillion cornices over, in the rusticated ground floor. The ground floor of number 5 has projecting wooden square bays with heavy pilastered surrounds and bracketted capitals. The entrances have raised rusticated surrounds with antae, egg and dart capitals, and cornice heads. Most of the houses have paired doors with Greek key patterned detailing and margin-glazed transom lights over, though the entrance to number 6 is in a round-arched doorway on the re-entrant angle of the western step.