NOS. 7, 8 AND 9

Nos. 7, 8, and 9 are a group of three symmetrical terrace houses, situated between No. 77 Great Pulteney Street and No. 1 Johnstone Street. They were built between 1788 and 1794 by Thomas Baldwin, John Eveleigh, and others, with designs incorporating elements by Robert Adam. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate mansard roofs, dormers, and moulded stacks to coped party walls.

The houses are three storeys with attics and basements, featuring double-depth plans. They have a continuous entablature with a modillion cornice, a moulded sill string course to the upper floor windows, a cornice over a rusticated ground floor with radial voussoirs to flat arched recesses, and a plinth. The windows are horned six/six-paned sashes. The outer ranges and those flanking the centre are flanked by a grand order of Corinthian pilasters rising from the ground floor cornice. The window in the centre of the first floor has a pediment with a festoon frieze supported by paired pilasters and consoles. First floor windows on each side, in the spaces without pilasters, are semicircular arched with cornices and similar friezes on consoles. The windows to the left (the right return of No. 77 Great Pulteney Street) are blind.

No. 7 has a three-window range, with a central eight-panel door and ornamented overlight below a corniced window. No. 8 features a five-window range with a seven-panel door and a plain overlight to the left of the centre. No. 9 similarly has a five-window range with a central seven-panel door and ornamented overlight below a corniced window. The interiors have not been inspected.

Laura Place is a key component of the Great Pulteney Street development, notable for its unusual lozenge-shaped plan, which creates a generous urban space. The elevations demonstrate the influence of Robert Adam on town architecture.