1-7, PORT HILL

1-7 Port Hill is a terrace of four houses, designed as a symmetrical architectural composition, built in the early 19th century. The front is made of yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond, with stucco dressings, while the sides and rear are constructed from yellow-grey gault brick. The roofs are mostly hipped and covered with Welsh slates, set behind low parapets. The original moulded stucco cornice and brick blocking course can still be seen on No. 1. The yellow brick chimneystacks feature oversailing courses and orange and yellow earthenware pots. The terrace has a shallow convex plan and is set back from the road behind shallow front gardens.

The exterior consists of three-storey wings at Nos. 1 and 7, with a two-storey center at Nos. 3 and 5, which features a shallow central break. The first floor has a symmetrical arrangement of sash windows: three at Nos. 1 and 7, and six at Nos. 3 and 5, all with 12 panes, recessed with concealed boxes, and set beneath rubbed flat arches. The second floors of Nos. 1 and 7 each have three nine-pane sash windows. There is a central projecting pediment shared by Nos. 3 and 5, and a stucco plat band at the first-floor level.

On the ground floor, there is a recessed four-panel door at No. 1, with the upper two panels glazed and surrounded by a stucco architrave, panelled frieze, and cornice. The door at No. 7 has been rebuilt as a window with a side entry. The center of the terrace features rusticated stucco with twin arches and recessed porches for Nos. 3 and 5, which have four-panel doors similar to No. 1, and plain glazed semicircular fanlights. The ground-floor sash windows are plate glazed with a central mullion in each sash, and there is a similar window on the first floor of No. 7. The sides and rear of the houses have sash windows on each floor, some set beneath segmental arches. No. 1 has a two-storey outshoot that has been raised from its original single-storey form.

The interiors were not inspected. Nos. 3 and 5 were listed separately on April 12, 1973.