Numbers 1-10 And Attached Railings

Numbers 1-10 Cambridge Gate form a terrace of ten houses built between 1875 and 1877 by T Archer and A Green, commissioned by Stanley G Bird. The terrace is constructed of bath stone with slated mansard roofs and dormers, featuring large slab chimney stacks. It occupies a symmetrical design across four storeys, attics, and basements, with projecting end bays at numbers 1 and 10. The architectural style is French Renaissance.

Each house presents one window to either side of a three-window bay. The windows are mostly recessed casements with enriched panels above. Square-headed doorways contain half-glazed doors and fanlights, some with enriched cast-iron grilles. Numbers 1 and 10 have prostyle porticoes. Canted window bays extend through the lower three storeys, incorporating bracketed cornices and central pediments with pierced parapets. The ground floor features pilasters supporting an entablature, with a continuous balustraded parapet at the first floor level. A console-bracketed balcony with balustrade is present at the second floor level, with cast-iron balconies to the bay windows. The third floor has three windows separated by pilasters above the bay windows, with a single window on each side. A bracketed cornice and parapet tops the elevation. Large dormers, each with a single round-arched light, a keystone, a segmental pediment, and flanking scrolls, are positioned above the bay windows. The end houses have attic storeys above the cornice and tall mansard roofs decorated with cast-iron railings and large palmettes. Nos 8 and 9 have blind boxes. A left-hand return features an eight-light cast-iron conservatory bay window set on a bracketed stone base.

The interiors have not been inspected.

Attached to the terrace are cast-iron panelled railings with a floral motif, defining the areas. The terrace was built on the site of the Colosseum (1824-6), which was demolished in 1875.