20-44, Belle Vue Terrace

This is a terrace of shops, originally known as Belle Vue Terrace, and including the former Belle Vue Hotel. Numbers 20, 22, and 24 date from around the mid-19th century and are built of ashlar stone. They are in an Italianate style, characterised by a prominent bracketed cornice. The buildings are three storeys high and four bays wide, with pilastered windows on the first and second floors. The first-floor windows have segmental arches, while the second-floor windows are round-arched, each with a keyblock and sashes lacking glazing bars. The ground floors have 20th-century shop fronts.

Numbers 26 to 32 date from around the mid-19th century and are constructed of painted ashlar or stucco with an Italianate design. They feature bracketed eaves and a mansard roof with five pedimented dormers. These buildings rise to three storeys and an attic, with five bays. The first-floor windows have cornices on brackets and bracketed cills, along with keyblocks, and are complemented by French casements. A cornice runs above the ground-floor shops. Number 28 has a particularly good shop front, featuring Ionic fluted columns supporting an arch. Inside, the chemist’s shop boasts pilastered mahogany shelving, drawers, and a moulded plaster ceiling.

Numbers 34 to 44, originally the Belle Vue Hotel (the word "Hotel" has since been removed from the central facade), date from around 1840. The buildings are stuccoed brick with a plain parapet, and are three storeys high with an attic. The six-bay front has 16-pane sashes, though some have been replaced by casements. Two French casements with ornate cast-iron balconies are located on the right-hand side. The ground floors have late-19th-century shop fronts, although number 34 has a 20th-century shop front.