1-24, Cornfield Terrace

CORNFIELD TERRACE comprises a terrace of twenty-four small houses built between 1851 and 1855, though exhibiting architectural characteristics typical of approximately thirty years earlier. The three-storey houses have basements with areas, though the areas are concealed in the houses now occupied by shops on the ground floor. Each house originally had two windows. The facades are stuccoed with a string course above the ground floor and Doric pilasters rising from the ground floor to the second floor. Above the cornices and parapets, Nos 11 to 16 have an additional storey with a balustrade in front of the top-floor windows, without pilasters, and a second string course above the first floor. Iron balconies are positioned on the first floor. Architraves with consoles adorn the first-floor windows, and the ground-floor windows have segmental heads. Most of the original glazing bars remain intact. The doorways are round-headed, set within moulded frames. Nos 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, and 16 remain as originally designed private dwellings. No 11 includes a contemporary curved shop window with small square panes and a cornice above. The remaining houses have modern shop fronts.