Widcombe Parade Nos 3-12 (Consec)

A row of eight terrace houses, now shops, was built in the late 18th century and has undergone alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar, with numbers 3-11 retaining this appearance, while number 12 is painted. The roofs are covered in slate, pantile, and double Roman tile.

The terrace presents a continuous, wide frontage with mansard roofs. An arched throughway joins numbers 6 and 7, and various extensions have been added to the rear. The houses are three storeys and have attics with paired sash flat-roofed dormers. Number 10, known as the Hunter’s Moon, has paired sashes to the second floor with plain glass. Most windows are twelve-pane sashes, although some are plain. The front doors are mostly paired and panelled, or paired sash replacements with a door on each side, and all but the Hunter’s Moon feature shopfronts with a deep, plain fascia. Number 4 has mid-19th century consoles, number 5 was altered in 1884, and number 6 has a late 19th-century altered front with thin pilasters, a recessed doorway, and a fascia with a cornice. Number 7 has a square oriel to the front, a glazed door, a transom light to the left, a shallow fascia, and a dentil cornice, likely from the mid-19th century. Above the archway to the throughway, between numbers 6 and 7, is inscribed "Beati Sunt Humiles" (Blessed are the Meek). A broad platband is visible, and the building has a cavetto cornice, blocking course, and a parapet. Number 11 contains mid-19th century surrounds with later 19th-century windows. The end gable and party walls are coped, and large ashlar stacks are situated between each pair of houses. The return of number 12 to Millbrook Place features paired lights to the first and second floors, some of which are blind, and the cornice is returned.

The rear of the buildings has various lean-to and other extensions. Number 5 has pantile rear slopes and a paired sash dormer above paired twelve-pane windows at the first and second floors, with a ground floor lean-to. Number 6 has pantile and slate, with two narrow paired sash dormers above small single lights and a lean-to. Number 7 has a substantial, full-height wing. Numbers 9-12 have double Roman tile rear slopes, and number 11 has an early paired four-pane sash dormer, while number 12 has a two-storey wing with a flat roof. The interiors have not been inspected. The first four houses were rebuilt in a style intended to match the originals.