Wellington Esplanade, Lowestoft

Wellington Esplanade is a terrace of 24 houses built in 1852-1853 to the designs of J L Clemence for Sir Samuel Morton Peto. The terrace is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings, originally roofed with slate, but now partly covered in concrete tile.

The terrace faces east over Wellington Gardens onto South Beach and comprises three storeys over lower ground basements; the end pavilions and central six houses have four storeys. Despite each house being asymmetrical, the entire terrace is perfectly symmetrical. The central six houses and the paired pavilions at either end have hipped roofs. Each house has a rusticated ground floor, a two-storey canted bay window rising from the basement, and a porch entrance reached via steps from a small front garden enclosed by cast-iron railings with finials. A dentilated eaves cornice runs along the front elevation. The windows were originally wooden sash windows; many have since been replaced with uPVC. Every house has front and rear chimney stacks.

The north and south elevations feature dummy chimney stacks on their western sides, maintaining a consistent roofline, with blind fenestration indicating the location of the functional chimney flues. Decorative brick panels are set within aprons beneath the openings. The rear (west) elevation is simpler, but retains gault brick dressings to window and door surrounds, the eaves cornice, and the rusticated detailing marking the four-storey sections.