1-8, Darlington Place

Nos. 1-8 Darlington Place comprise a terrace of eight houses built between 1813 and 1824. They were possibly designed by John Pinch the Elder and are part of the development on the Bathwick Estate, named after Henry Vane, 4th Earl of Darlington.

The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate and double Roman tile roofs, featuring moulded stacks to the party walls and returns, with many hand-thrown chimney pots. They have a three-storey and lower ground floor design, with each house originally featuring a pair of windows. The terrace has a continuous returned coped parapet and cornice, with three/three-pane sash windows in the attic storey and six/six-pane sash windows to the remaining floors. A second-floor cornice sweeps down slightly on the right quoin; a continuous first-floor sill band runs along the elevation, and semicircular arched recesses frame the ground-floor windows.

Each house has a two-storey porch to the right, with a returned coped parapet and cornice, first-floor sill band and a window on the first floor. The returns have blind windows, while the six-panel doors have decorative raised panels and narrow overlights. Nos. 1-4 have porches with banded rustication. Nos. 5-8 have wider porches with semicircular arched recesses incorporating cornices at the impost level over the doors and small windows to the returns, with a swept canopy hood above the entrance to No. 6.

Interior features remain largely original. No. 6, inspected in 1986, includes front vaults with a stone sink and draining boards. A barley sugar mahogany newel post with acanthus leaves is present on the lower staircase, and the ground floor staircase has an ebony inlaid handrail and a cantilevered stone staircase. Matching dressers flank the ground floor dining room fireplace. No. 16 reveals a possible Regency brass plate on the half landing, a fine Regency Gothic white marble fireplace in the basement, and a rear ground floor Adam-style fireplace from Connaught Mansions, Pulteney Street. The owner intends to install two Adam-style fluted Corinthian pilasters, originating from a house linked to Robert Burns' mistress in Edinburgh.