9-13, Kingston Parade

Nos. 9-13 Kingston Parade are six terrace houses built around 1819 and altered around 1875. They are rendered and painted, featuring pantile roofs. The terrace has a narrow frontage and a double depth plan. The houses are two storeys tall, except for Nos. 8 and 9, which have been heightened by two extra storeys and are now amalgamated as No. 9. Each ground floor has a panelled door to the right with a three-pane rectangular light above and a window to the left. There is a continuous band at the heads of the doors and windows, with a centrally placed window above. All windows are six-over-six sash windows in plain reveals, except for the ground floor of No. 13, which has a four-over-four window as part of an original shopfront, and all windows of No. 9, which are late 19th-century plate glass sashes. No. 9 also has an additional window where a former door was located. The buildings feature a cornice, parapet, and tall ashlar stacks with pots. The interiors have not been inspected. The leases for these houses date from 1819, and they do not appear on the Godwin map of 1810. The late 19th-century alterations to Nos. 8 and 9 were likely part of Isaac Pitman's conversion of the premises into his Fonetik Institute around 1875.