Greendown Terrace With Front Boundary Railings

Greendown Terrace comprises five terrace houses, dating to circa 1840. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs. They are arranged with small front areas and basements, and rear ranges to a central valley. Each house is two storeys and basement in height, with two windows to the ground and first floors, and one to the basement. The majority of the windows are sashes, with Nos. 166, 168, and 170 having twelve-pane sashes, while the others are plain. All sashes are set within dropped drip moulds and bull-nose sills. Basement lights are generally two-light casements with pavement grilles. Each house has a panelled part-glazed door set in deep reveals, with a dropped drip course and four stone steps leading up to it. There are six coped gables, two paired ashlar stacks, and one at the right-hand end. The right gable end has one sash window and two small lights. The rear elevations vary, with three storeys to No.162, and lower ranges with varied roofs elsewhere. A large shared stack is located within the rear range of Nos.168/170. The interiors have not been inspected. Running across the whole frontage are spearhead cast iron railings with a gate to each property, with returns at party divisions. No.162 has three square ashlar piers with pyramid cappings, an ashlar wall approximately 1 metre high, and modern railings. The terrace is an unusual early Victorian example in a Tudorbethan style, though adhering to a Georgian terrace format. It is comparable to James Wilson’s 1843 design for St Swithin’s Almshouses, Lansdown (now St Stephen's Buildings), although less picturesque.