3, 4 And 5 And Attached Railings

These are three terrace houses, built around 1764 to 1770, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs. The houses have a large plan, featuring double mansard roofs and a typical entrance and staircase positioned to one side. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with two windows per front. Most windows are twelve-pane sashes in plain reveals, although No.4 has deep fifteen-pane sashes with balconettes on the first floor and dormers with paired twelve-pane sashes. Basement windows have single twelve-pane sashes. The front door of No.3 is a six-panel door with steps and a doorcase featuring attached fluted “Doric” columns supporting a pediment with a fluted frieze and three paterae. No.4 has a projecting, pedimented porch with solid cheeks leading to a six-panel door in panelled pilasters with a panelled architrave. No.5 has a projecting porch with solid cheeks and a flat cornice, with a six-panel door under a slightly cambered head, framed by panelled pilasters. A platband sits above the ground floor, and a moulded cornice with a blocking course and parapet tops the elevation. The mansard roof is coped at each end, with two deep ashlar chimney stacks on each side of the ridge. The rear elevations of the houses are individually designed. No.3 has dormers and a three-level tripartite sash window with small cavetto drip courses. No.4 features a deep, full-height canted bay with a single four-pane sash on the top floor and twelve-pane sashes on each facet below, each with a net balconette. No.5 has a simple paired sash dormer above tripartite plain sashes. The basement develops into a full lower ground floor at the rear. Interior inspection in 1973 of Nos.4 and 5 revealed little remaining original features, aside from a ceiling rose decorated with thistles and a few fireplaces. Simple iron railings on a stone curb enclose small basement areas and return at the doorways.