135-141, WELLSWAY

This is a three-property terrace, incorporating a public house, dating from the early 19th century, with alterations in the 20th century. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs.

The terrace is slightly stepped and of single depth, with various rear wings and extensions, returning at the right-hand end. A broad gabled link in coursed squared stone connects the buildings. The main front is two storeys with a basement, articulated with giant order pilasters. The fenestration is arranged as two windows plus two windows plus three windows plus three windows; all windows are sashes, set in plain sunk surrounds. Ground floor windows have flat segmental heads. Number 135 has a plain sash window with bracketed sills, an apron below the ground floor light, and a single plain sash window to the basement, which is accessed by three steps. A 20th-century door with a margin-pane transom light is also present. Number 137 is similar to Number 135 but with a single pilaster to the left and centre, stepping forward from Number 135, with a further slight step at the centre pilaster. It features a door on four steps and a basement area enclosed by railings. Nos. 139 and 141 form The Devonshire Arms. The left portion of the pub has three twelve-pane sashes above a plain sash window to the left, a basement window head in a plinth, and a large multi-pane, late 20th-century casement window to the right. A central, partially glazed 20th-century door with transom light is also present. The building displays three pilasters. The right-hand portion of the pub is slightly higher than No. 139 and has three plain sashes above a large, late 20th-century four-light casement window, flanked by blind doorways. The entablature runs the full width of the terrace, and above the end bay of No. 139 is a bold raised blocking with expressed ends and centre, with moulded coping, decorative blockings above the end pilasters and a set-back pediment to No. 141. Prominent stacks are located between the sections of the terrace. The return side is plain, with a large, late 20th-century bowed pub frontage and beyond, plain walling with three sashes at first floor. The rear of Number 135 has a deep gabled wing. The interior of the Devonshire Arms has been extensively altered and opened out. Originally, the terrace may have been symmetrical, slightly stepped up the hill, but that balance is now altered by the treatment of Number 141. It is a finely executed Greek Revival terrace, demonstrating the care given to even a relatively modest development.