Upper Terrace

A row of five (or four, depending on the entry) late 19th-century estate cottages. The cottages are built of brick with diaper patterning created using dark-coloured headers, and have a fish-scale slate gabled roof. They have a rectangular plan layout with a symmetrical west-facing facade featuring three large and two smaller gables. The larger gables alternate with the smaller, which break the eaves, and all are adorned with decorative carved bargeboards. The cottages are one and a half storeys in height, with seven tall chimneys featuring clustered and fluted shafts, toothed bases, elaborate offset heads, and some original chimney pots. Windows are 2-light casements on the first floor and 3-light on the ground floor, all with decorative glazing bars. Entrance porches are located on the west front, situated on the internal angles of projecting gables. These porches have brick columns on stone bases, and are topped with tumbled brick and stone parapets with flat roofs behind. The cottages were built as part of the Walter model estate village, with Bear Wood, located within the Parish of Arborfield and Newland, serving as the large house constructed for John Walter.