Numbers 12-21 And Attached Walls, Piers And Railings

Terraced houses, now divided into flats, mid-nineteenth century. Stucco construction with varied roof materials: pantile to numbers 12, 14, 15 and 21; slate to numbers 13, 17, 18 and 20; asbestos shingles to number 16; and number 19's roof obscured by parapet.

The terrace consists of three storeys and an attic above basement level, with three windows to each unit. All entrances are paired, with a straight join between paired units. The terrace steps down the slope from north to south by breaking joins between alternate units. All units follow a common design.

The elevation is treated as a full-height, nearly full-width canted bay. Full-height quoin strips flank the bay on either side at the party walls, interrupted by a series of horizontal mouldings. Each entrance features a flat-arched door with overlight, reached by a short flight of steps. The entrance is set to the party wall and recessed under the bay, framed by an aedicule of paired Tuscan columns. One column is attached to the bay whilst the other is freestanding, standing on the party wall line and shared with the adjacent unit's porch. The aedicule's entablature continues across the ground floor as the fascia for a first-floor balcony, supported at the opposite party wall by a broad bracket.

The ground floor is rendered with banded, chamfered rustication. The two flat-arched windows flanking the entrance have quadrant corners and keyed lintels. Each ground-floor window has a moulded projecting sill supported by a pair of console brackets; second-floor windows have similar treatment. The first-floor balcony is enclosed by cast-iron railings in a heart and scroll pattern, recalling late eighteenth and nineteenth-century work. The full-height first-floor windows have stilted, segmental heads with a continuous springing band across the façade and architraves to the heads only. The second-floor windows are flat-arched; the centre window is set in an aedicule of Tuscan pilasters with broad entablature, whose cornice marks the division between second floor and attic. The attic windows are round-arched with projecting sills and architraves tied together by springing bands. A continuous bracketed dentil cornice tops the elevation.

The return of number 12 has a three-window range repeating the centre range of the main elevation. Number 21 has a one-window range return of similar design. Notable details include second-floor and attic windows in the centre range with 2 × 2 sashes, the same pattern recurring in the centre first-floor window of numbers 12 and 16. The centre first-floor window of number 14 has a top sash of four panes. Cast-iron flower guards of mid to late nineteenth-century design appear on the windows of numbers 18 and 21.

Each area and entrance has walls, piers and railings. The railing uprights are twisted shafts topped by fleur-de-lys.

Although built in the Victorian period, the design recalls the Regency terraces characteristic of Kemp Town. This group, together with numbers 7–11 across the street, maintains consistency with local tradition, though they should not be characterised as "Regency Revival". The terrace forms a group with numbers 1–11 Chesham Place.

The interior was not inspected.