15-29, Wellington Crescent

This is a terrace row of houses built between 1817 and 1824. The building is constructed of stock brick, with some areas rendered, and has a slate roof. The terrace is divided into three sections: five bays of three storeys and a basement on the left, six bays of four storeys and a basement in the middle, and four bays of a taller four storeys and a basement on the right. The ground floor features a rusticated base and a continuous iron Doric colonnade, with a tented verandah above the first floor. The verandah has simple railings, trellised piers, and circular and bobbin-shaped decorative patterns, with a valance along the top. A parapet and chimneys run along the entire length of the terrace.

The house on the far left (number 29) has a canted corner bay with a cross window on the second floor and a single margin light French window with a rectangular fanlight, the ironwork of which mirrors the verandah’s design. A half-glazed door sits to the left of this, accompanied by a semi-circular fanlight and a large sash window. The other houses incorporate glazing bar sashes on the second floor (some now replaced) and margin light French windows on the first floor, each with traceried rectangular fanlights. The verandahs are divided between houses by wooden or spiked rail partitions.

Most of the original eight-panelled doors remain, featuring a central moulded vertical piece and semi-circular fanlights, typically with traceried designs. Basement windows are mostly sashes, with the areas beneath the colonnade frequently now covered with iron railings. The rear return of the building exhibits round headed window openings, a shaped gable end, and a late 19th-century shop front, now serving as a hotel entrance. This shop front features plate glass, a boarded dado, a central half-glazed door, and an elaborate wooden fascia with a central pediment.

The terrace is identical to numbers 1-14 and completes the row, which is bisected by The Plains of Waterloo. According to Collard and Hurst's map of 1822, only eight of the fifteen units had been constructed.