1-14, Wellington Crescent

The Wellington Crescent is a terrace of houses built between 1817 and 1824. It is constructed of stock brick, with some rendered areas, and has a slate roof. The terrace comprises three storeys and a basement on the right, six bays with four storeys and a basement, and four bays with four storeys and a basement, the latter being taller. The base is rusticated, and a continuous ground-floor Doric colonnade runs the length of the terrace. Above the colonnade is a tented verandah with simple rails, trellised piers, and valancing, featuring circular and bobbin-shaped decorative patterns. Parapet and chimney stacks are arranged along the building's length.

The end house, No. 1, is canted out in a segmental shape, with an added fourth storey featuring three mullioned and transomed windows. A Diocletian window is located on the second floor, a tripartite full-height sash window on the first floor, and a tripartite sash window to the ground floor, with a panelled door to the left. Other houses have glazing bar sashes to the second floor (some now replaced) and margin light French windows on the first floor, each with a traceried rectangular fanlight that matches the ironwork of the verandah. Most of the verandahs are divided by boarded or railed partitions.

The original panelled and moulded doors retain their traceried semi-circular fanlights. Basement windows have sashes, and the areas beneath the colonnade are often now infilled, with largely original two-height spiked railings. The left return (to No. 14) continues the rustic base, with a double half-glazed door and sidelights under a semi-circular fanlight in a recessed elliptical doorway. The fenestration and round-headed openings mirror that of the opposite side elevation of No. 15.

The Wellington Crescent is a mirror image of Nos. 15-29, and is bisected by The Plains of Waterloo. Construction reached Nos. 1 to 7 by the time Collard and Hurst's 1822 map of Ramsgate was published.