Nos. 1-10 (Consec) With Railings And Gates

Ten terrace houses on Cambridge Terrace, dated 1821 with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed in limestone ashlar with slate roofs.

The terrace takes advantage of a sloping site to create double-depth houses with principal fronts facing east at high level and garden frontages at lower level, generating a full extra storey on the downslope side. The houses are generally similar in external layout, except No. 10, which has a lower gabled range at its far end.

Each building is two storeys with a lower ground floor, featuring two windows per floor, all sashes. The right-hand window sits at mid-height above the door. Built as a speculative venture, the terrace incorporates differing interior layouts, and later alterations have somewhat compromised the unified appearance of the frontage.

No. 1 has a two-light dormer in a set-back mansard roof above a plain sash, with the right-hand window at mid-level over a six-panel door. A plain tympanum sits under an arched stone hood on solid cheeks, with a reeded leading edge carried round. To the right of the door is a small oculus. Upper windows feature cast iron balconettes, and the basement light is concealed below a glazed lay light. The return gable is plain with two stacks joined by a straight parapet. The rear elevation has a single large sixteen-pane sash at each level, with balconette and door to the garden.

No. 2 is similar, with a smaller dormer above a plain roof slope and twelve-pane sashes. The basement sits under a corrugated plastic lay light. The six-panel door has a comparable hood with cheeks. The rear matches No. 1.

No. 3 has a single sash dormer in the mansard slope above twelve-pane sashes. To the right is a two-storey deep square porch with quoin pilasters, cornice, blocking course and parapet. Large twelve-pane sashes face the front and left return, with smaller four-pane below and a panelled door in a wide pilaster surround. Upper windows have balconettes and a lay-light over the basement window. The rear has paired plain sashes to the top two floors above a glazed lean-to conservatory over the door and a single sash.

Nos. 1–3 share a continuous lintel, frieze, cornice, blocking course and parapet, with high coped party divisions and paired stacks. Two lead hopperheads and downpipes face the front.

No. 4 has a full attic storey with plain sashes, including a small single light and two smaller inserted lights in the attic, and a basement under a lay light. A five-panel door, topped with glazing, sits to the right in a fluted pilaster doorcase with cornice. To the right is a small arched light. The rear has paired sashes at each level, with two to the attic.

No. 5 also features a full attic storey with two nine-pane sashes above a four-pane, with a two-storey square porch to the right, quoin pilasters, cornice, blocking course and parapet with a margin light sash above a six-panel door in a Doric pedimented doorcase. The left return has a small sash at ground floor and a blind light opposite. The basement has a glazed lay light. The rear matches No. 4.

A lintel, frieze and cornice continue across Nos. 4 and 5 with an attic parapet, and stacks with coped party divisions. Centred to the front is a lead hopperhead bearing the date 1821.

No. 6 has been fully and carefully restored. A small dormer sits above twelve-pane sashes with balconettes and a glazed lay light to the basement. The porch resembles others, with a partly glazed door under a segmental pediment. The rear has twelve-pane sashes and a glazed conservatory.

Nos. 7, 8 and 9 lack porches. No. 7 has a four-pane sash and a small arched light to the right of the door. No. 8 has twelve-pane sashes, and No. 9 has plain sashes. Each has a panelled door to the right. No. 8 features a 20th-century gabled hood on wood brackets. Nos. 7 and 8 have glazed lay lights to the basement; No. 9 has an open area. Each has a coped party division with stacks. The rear has plastic windows to No. 7, twelve-pane sashes to No. 8, and a plain sash to No. 9.

No. 10 is a lower, two-storey gabled unit, possibly surviving from an earlier building on the site, with two plain sashes above a glazed porch to a door at low level. The end gable is coped with high kneelers.

The rear elevation of the main terrace features grooved rustication to the ground floor, with voussoirs to the window and door, and a broad platband above, crowned with cornice, blocking course and parapet, raised to Nos. 4 and 5.

Interior inspection was partly undertaken at No. 3 and fully at No. 6 by Bath City Council in 1990. At No. 6, the first-floor ceiling had been removed and the rear attic casement removed.

Simple iron railings and gates, both with dog-bars, run the full width of Nos. 1–9, returned at the ends. A stone staircase to the two lowest levels has a stick balustrade.

The terrace forms a prominent backdrop to Nos. 9–13 Hatfield Buildings, which lie down the slope to the west.