Albert Terrace And Railings

Albert Terrace comprises a terrace of 23 houses built between 1849 and 1852, designed by Garland and Christopher. The construction is primarily yellow stock brick with stucco banded rustication to the ground floor and stucco dressings, topped with slate roofs. Some sections have dormers behind a stucco parapet featuring a cornice, which is broken in places.

The terrace features a slightly projecting central two-bay section (number 24) flanked by pedimented four-bay sections at numbers 12, 14, 38 and 40, ornamented with brackets to the cornices and pediments. The houses are two storeys high, with attics and basements, and each has two bays. Steps lead to panelled front doors with original fittings and oblong overlights, set within Classical doorcases featuring pilasters and a plain entablature with cornice. The ground-floor sash windows have margin lights and keystones that touch the cornice. First-floor sash windows with glazing bars are set within square-headed stucco architraves; those at numbers 12, 14 and 24, as well as the bays flanking numbers 38 and 40, have cornices, with numbers 38 and 40 also featuring pediments. The grand pediment to numbers 38 and 40 contains a beehive emblem in the tympanum, possibly referencing the Royal Philanthropic Society Reformatory, who owned the estate. These bays also have windows with keystones incorporated into the pediment.

Internally, the houses retain original stick-baluster staircases with wreathed handrails, panelled doors, shutters and fireplaces. Subsidiary features include wrought-iron area railings and some window boxes with anthemion panels.