3-13, Albert Road, with railed areas

This is a terrace of six houses, numbered 3 to 13 Albert Road, with railed areas, built around 1860. The terrace is attributed to Edward Welby Pugin. It is constructed of stock brick, with some areas painted, and rendered detailing, and has a slate roof, partly replaced with concrete tiles. The architectural style is Italian Gothic.

The terrace is four storeys high, with a basement, and incorporates a semi-attic top storey. A plinth and Lombard frieze feature on the central range, with chimney stacks to the left and centre. At each end, the terrace steps out, corbelled at the left and right ends; the left end has a truncated corbelled chimney, and the right end also has a truncated chimney on the parapet. The facade is divided into two equal sections. Gable pavilions, with full four storeys, kneelers, gable lights, and a secondary gable in the centre, are positioned at each end of the terrace.

The central range has large semi-dormers, paired with two smaller dormers on either side, all set within a pierced balustrade and featuring bargeboards. Each house has a triple lancet and a single lancet sash window on the second floor, with rendered arched heads. These windows are above two-storey and basement canted bays, with balustraded parapets and moulded, segmentally headed surrounds to the sashes, with single keyed, segmentally headed French windows in between. A continuous balcony runs along the front, featuring an unusually styled Gothic rail, which has been replaced with a simple 20th-century rail at the left end. Small, round, turret-like oriels, corbelled out and with traceried fenestration, are set in the outer corners of each pavilion at the first floor level. Half-glazed doors are located to the left, to the right, and paired to the centre right. A 20th-century hotel entrance has replaced the original doors towards the centre left, all with solid walls and piers leading to flights of steps. Basement windows have sashes and half-glazed doors, with palmette-headed rails enclosing the basement area.

Historical records indicate that Pugin and some business associates purchased the former Mount Albion House estate in the 1840s, and built terraces – this block and the Granville Hotel (originally Granville Terrace) were designed by Pugin himself.