1-7, Barton Buildings

A terrace of seven houses, numbered 1-7 Barton Buildings, was built in 1768 (as evidenced by lease dates), with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The terrace occupies a pedestrian walkway which steps uphill, beginning with No. 1 on the left. The buildings are likely the work of John Wood the Younger. They are constructed of limestone ashlar with a double-pitched slate mansard roof, featuring paired dormers and moulded stacks rising from coped party walls on the right side. The plan is of a double depth.

The three-story buildings have attics and basements, with each house being one window wide. Coped parapets step upwards, and cornices, first-floor sill bands, and ground-floor platbands curve to the left. The first floors have tripartite windows.

No. 1 has a painted ground floor; it retains six/six-pane sash windows on the second floor, plate glass sashes to the first floor's tripartite window, splayed reveals to paired windows on the ground floor, a recessed six-panel door to the left, and altered six/six-pane sashes in the basement. No. 2 is also painted on the ground floor, with a two-light casement window on the second floor's left side and a plate glass sash on the right. A timber canted oriel window replaces a former tripartite window on the first floor and features horizontal glazing bars, two/two-pane sashes, and a canted trellised balconette over horizontal tongue-and-groove planking that covers the platband. A plate glass sash window on the ground floor has splayed reveals and a trellised balconette, alongside a 20th-century door on the right. The basement contains six/six-pane sashes without horns.

No. 3 retains six/six-pane tripartite windows on the upper floors, an eight/eight-pane sash on the ground floor, six/six-pane sashes without horns in the basement, splayed reveals to the ground floor, and a raised and fielded six-panel door to the right. A 20th-century balconette is present on the first floor. No. 4 has six/six-pane sash windows (upper floors and basement without horns), and a six-panel door glazed at the top to the right. No. 5 features six/six-pane sash windows (upper floors without horns), an eight/eight-pane sash on the ground floor, and a six-panel door to the right, glazed at the top. The door surround is textured to suggest a Gibbs surround. No. 6 includes six/six-pane sash windows, a timber lintel, and chamfered jambs to a late 19th-century nine-panel door on the left. Finally, No. 7 has six/six-pane sash windows; the centre of the first-floor window has a simple balconette and a 20th-century door to the right. The rear elevations have seen various alterations but were originally similar to the fronts.

The interiors were not inspected. Historically, No. 6 served as a "Young Ladies Academy of Drawing, Writing, Arithmetic and Geography," while No. 7 was "Mr. Stevens Academy for the board and tuition of Young Gentlemen" from 1794 to 1796.