1-13, Melrose Place

A terrace of thirteen houses, built around 1840 in limestone ashlar. The houses are arranged in a formal terrace, with the end houses and the central three projecting forward. They have a double-depth plan and three storeys plus a basement. Each house has a two-window frontage. The ground floor is banded, topped by a plat band, bracketed cornice and a parapet. The doorways have recessed jambs, imposts with guttae and brackets, overlights, and two-panel doors. Ground-floor windows are tripartite, with two-paned sashes; the upper sashes are six-paned and have architraves, with smaller windows on the second floor. Wrought-iron balconies with Greek Revival decoration are present on the first-floor windows. The right-hand end house has a two-storey side block with a doorway, a small ground-floor window with margin panes, and a first-floor window with a wrought-iron basket balcony. The left-hand end houses have later 19th-century decorative additions, including a doorway with fluted consoles supporting a pediment, a semicircular arch with a fluted key, and blind windows above the doorway. The left return has a three-window range with a recessed centre, consoles to the outer ground-floor windows, and balustrades above. The interior was not inspected. The terrace shares decorative details with the nearby South Parade.