Nos. 1-8 (Consec) With Area Railings

Clarendon Villas consists of eight terrace houses built in the mid-19th century, with minor alterations in the 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with slate, pantile, and concrete tile roofs. The houses are stepped up a hillside, with the lower ground floor fully exposed at the rear due to the slope. Nos. 1–7 are identical in design, and No. 8 forms a stop at the upper end.

Each house is three storeys high, with a lower ground floor, and features plain sash windows with sills on brackets. To the left of each house is a single sash window at four levels; the ground-floor window has a floating cornice on consoles. To the right is a single sash above a two-storey square porch with a narrow paired sash above an original four-panelled door also under a floating cornice on consoles. The porches incorporate a small light at ground floor and a blind light above, with a moulded cornice, the blocking course being slightly peaked on Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The porch and window above are stepped down half a storey relative to the main fenestration. Eaves gutters are supported by stone modillion brackets, and there are deep stacks to the coped party walls to the right of each house.

The lower return frontages are plain. The rear elevation has paired sashes at the second and first floors, with deep bracketed sills and decorative cast iron cresting at the first floor. Below are two-storey canted bays with hipped lead roofs and small cast iron balconettes at ground floor level extending around the bay on deep sills. A door is located on the lower ground floor to the left. The front elevations have a moulded cornice, a shallow blocking course, and a parapet.

Nos. 3, 6, and 8 have slate roofs, No. 5 has a pantile roof, and the remaining houses have concrete tile roofs. No. 8 continues the masonry of No. 7 without interruption and features single and paired sashes at the first and second floors, with a canted bay to the right at ground level under a cornice and flat entablature. The bay has cast iron sill cresting. The six-panel door has a floating cornice with consoles. The return to the left has a double hipped roof with sashes at each floor centrally, and a smaller sash near the front, all with margin panes. A stack to the right is combined with No. 7. The rear elevation is similar to the others but has extra lights to the right.

The interiors have not been inspected. Across the front of each house is a railing with alternate hoops on a stone curb, returned at the ends. The terrace is a late development, making good use of the site by locating the main rooms to the rear to take advantage of sunshine and views. The terrace appears externally unaltered.