4-40, Severn Terrace

The terrace at 4-40 Severn Terrace comprises 19 houses, now used as houses, flats, and offices. The terrace dates to the early 19th century and has undergone later additions and alterations. Built of reddish-orange brick in a Flemish bond, the roofs are slate, with a hipped roof on the left-hand side. The property features tall brick party-wall stacks with oversailing courses and decorative pots.

The houses are three storeys high, with some having attics. The window arrangement is irregular, with a pattern of 1:2:1:blind:1:2:2:1:1:1:1:1:1:1:2:1:1:blind:1:2:1 first-floor windows, where "blind" indicates a shared window between two properties. Primarily, the ground and first floors feature 8/8 sash windows in plain reveals, with sills. Numbers 14 and 30 have French windows; the one at number 30 has margin lights and decorative gothic glazing to the overlight, both with balconies featuring a stick and circle balustrade motif (the balcony at number 14 being a replacement). The second floor contains original 3/3, 3/6, and 4/4 sash windows.

Main entrances are generally located to the right of each house. Numbers 4 and 36 share an entrance; most original entrances are 5-panel doors with lower flush, beaded panels, topped by fanlights, some featuring decorative glazing bars and set within tooled architraves, one pair sharing a pilastered surround. A similar entrance is situated on the left return. The left return has 6/6 sash windows. The rear elevation retains a mixture of 6/6, 8/8, 3/3, and 4/4 sash windows.

The interiors remain uninspected. Severn Terrace forms a group with numbers 4-10 (even) and The Moors. Numbers 38 and 40 were added to the listing in this recent review.