Chartham Terrace And Garden Wall To Right

This is a terrace of houses and a garden wall, built in the 18th century by Charles Habershon. The terrace is constructed of knapped flint with stock brick details and ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It is three storeys high with a basement and double attics, featuring four stacks arranged across the roof and a counterset stack at the right end. There are four gabled semi-dormers and four gabled dormers. A large gable is at the right end, with a smaller three-storey gabled projection to the right of that. A two-storey crenellated polygonal porch is at the left end, and three gabled two-storey porches are in the centre, all featuring diapered and ornamental brickwork. The windows are mainly sashes, with nine to the left on the second floor, ten on the first floor (those in the porches having four-centred arched heads), and six on the ground floor. The ground floor windows have four-centred arched heads and half-glazed doors. A boarded door is in the right end gable. A flint and brick wall, approximately 6 feet high and running northwards for about 20 metres, projects from the gable. The southern, seaward elevation has four two-storey and basement canted bays, and a three-storey and basement canted bay within a shallow projecting gable at the left end. This section has a nine-bay facade with mixed sashes and wooden casements, with four-centred arched heads to the first-floor windows and the half-glazed doors. Habershon was both the developer and architect of the terrace, with the declared intention of building higher than and obstructing light to the adjoining St. Augustine’s complex, designed by Pugin.