Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace is an incomplete terrace of about 1830, designed by Amon Wilds. Number 7 was added shortly afterwards. The terrace demonstrates Greek Revival style and is built with a brick core, rendered and concealed behind a parapet. The eastern four bays project slightly and are ornamented at eaves level, but this detail is not repeated at the west end. The next eight bays show no indication of an intended central point at eaves level, and the final two western bays are unadorned. The ground floor has been obscured by shopfronts.

The terrace is four storeys high and ten bays wide, with the four bays on the left featuring a shallow pediment to the centre two bays, flanked by volute and anthemion ornamentation to the parapet of the slightly lower outer bays. It has arch-headed windows and two square-headed windows with a linked entablature across the centre of the third floor, with similar window openings between pilasters. The windows are mostly 9- and 6-pane sashes. The first floor has enclosed shell heads above 12-pane sash windows, with cast-iron balconies originally present (now replaced in bays two, three, six, seven, ten, and eleven) by 3-light oriels supported on cast-iron brackets. A blind parapet tops the building. Inserted windows on the ground floor are hidden by the shopfronts. The end two bays on the right have similar, but slightly larger, sash windows with an otherwise plain facade. The shopfronts feature a dentil-moulded cornice, fluted pilasters with a cavetto-moulded frieze, and a pediment surmounted by a ball finial. Nos. 2 and 3 have been gutted.

The rear elevation is austere, with window openings punched into the roughcast render without any mouldings. According to the street directory of 1850, numbers 1 to 6 existed at this date.