Numbers 6 to 8 (Consecutive) and Railings to Number 7

Numbers 6 to 8 Malvern Terrace comprise three consecutive villas built between 1839 and 1841 by Joseph Kay, who was the surveyor for the Thornhill Estate. They are constructed of brown/beige stock bricks laid in Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and banded stucco to the ground floor. The roofs are of Welsh slate, hipped in form, with red-tiled ridges, projecting eaves and brick party-wall stacks.

The houses are arranged around a side-hall entrance plan and are two storeys high. Numbers 6 and 8 each have two windows, while number 7 is one window wide. The ground-floor openings are round-arched; Number 6 features fluted pilaster jambs to the doorway, while the others have plain surrounds, all topped with corniced heads. Number 7 has a 20th-century panelled door and patterned fanlight, and all windows are 2/2 sashes. Number 8 has architraves to the ground-floor openings. A first-floor stucco storey band is present on number 6, with an additional stucco sill band. Number 8 has full-length sashes to the first floor. Number 6 has attached cast-iron railings.

The villas are part of Malvern Terrace, which is a row of terraced houses similar to Ripplevale Grove and are set back from a paved pedestrian access, featuring long front gardens. They originally served as groomsmen’s cottages for Ripplevale Grove, and it is suggested that number 7 may have been a tackroom, with a carriageway access to the ground floor.