1-6 (Consec) Cleveland Terrace

This is a row of six terrace houses, now shops, built around 1832, with later 19th and 20th century alterations. The architect was Henry Edmund Goodridge. The original shopfronts were designed as part of an overall architectural concept. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double Roman tile roofs and stacks to the party walls. They have double-depth plans.

The houses are four storeys high, including an attic storey, with coped parapets and attic and second-floor cornices. Numbers 1 and 6 have single window fronts, while numbers 2 to 5 have two-window fronts. Number 1 slightly projects and has panelled pilasters framing a tripartite window on each upper floor. It features a cast iron balcony with rounded corners and a central roundel motif. The original shopfront (now removed) included a four-panel door to the left. The upper floors of numbers 2 to 5 are set back, unified by a continuous roof line and a sill band. They feature six/six-pane sash windows, full height to the first floor, with moulded architraves. These first-floor sashes open onto a continuous balcony with roundels before each window. The shopfront level aligns with terminals that support the balcony. Number 2 has a 20th-century shopfront. Number 3 has a six-panel door and blocked overlight to the left, with an altered late 19th-century shopfront featuring a set-back central shop door, flanked by two-pane plate glass windows with curved overlights. Number 4 has a six-panel door, two-pane overlight to the left, and a set-back double door to the right of the circa 1832 shop featuring a four-pane overlight. Number 5 has a similar door to the left and a late 19th-century shopfront with consoles marking the former fascia, and a 20th-century shop. Number 6 is similar to number 1, with a curved acute corner to the right return, and its circa 1832 shopfront was altered in the mid-19th century, with double half-glazed doors and overlight to the left and similar 20th-century doors to the right. Mouldings continue along the right return and onto the curve. A 20th-century light casement window in a moulded architrave replaces a former sash window on the first floor of number 1. A former door below is now a window flanked by Tuscan pilasters. To the right of the right return is a plate glass first floor sash window and overlight to double three-panel doors.

The interior of number 1 was inspected in 1986 and retains its original kitchen in the front basement. Historically, number 1 was occupied by the Walcot Pharmacy, with traces of the painted name remaining at attic level. The row of houses represents a dramatic continuation of Goodridge’s Cleveland Place, and embodies leading tendencies in Late Georgian terrace design.