Numbers 1 To 9 And Attached Front Railings And Garden Wall To Side

Harley Place, Numbers 1 to 9

A terrace of nine houses built in 1788, partly altered around 1840. The houses are constructed in limestone ashlar with tooled Pennant ashlar basements, party wall stacks, and slate and pantile mansard roofs. The terrace follows a double-depth plan and is executed in the Late Georgian style.

Each house is three storeys high with an attic and basement, and each presents a three-window range across its front. The terrace is arranged as an irregularly stepped composition, with numbers 2, 3, 6, and 7 set forward and articulated by pilasters rising to a thin string and cornice topped with small balls to a cyma moulding (missing from number 2). These houses have rusticated ground floors defined by a continuous band. Numbers 5, 8, and 9 lack rustication and were possibly altered in the mid-19th century.

Pairs of houses feature paired semicircular-arched inner doorways with deeply-set doors and banded reveals. Numbers 1 to 5 and 7 to 8 are furnished with metal batswing fanlights, while number 6 has a teardrop fanlight. The doors are six-panel with raised upper panels; those to numbers 4 to 9 have cut-out corners. The doorway to number 5 sits within a semicircular-arched recess, and rectangular recesses frame the ground-floor windows, linked by an impost band. Numbers 6 and 7 have rectangular recesses to their doorways with keyed incised voussoirs matching the windows. Number 8 is notably lower, featuring a ground-floor arcade of semicircular-arched recesses linked by an impost band, with two wrought-iron lantern brackets above the doorway. Number 9 has a coped attic storey and a ground-floor arcade of semicircular-arched recesses. Its left-hand flat-headed doorway displays a fine rectangular overlight with central round and flanking lozenge metal glazing bars, topped by a lantern. The first floor of number 9 contains a large three-light window set within a segmental-arched recess, with niches below round sunken panels and panel aprons on either side. A sill band marks the second floor, with upper windows in rectangular recesses. The balcony features mid-19th-century cast-iron railings with Greek Revival motifs, and second-floor basket balconies are present.

Windows throughout are primarily six-over-six-pane sashes, full-depth on the first floors, although number 4 has nine-over-nine-pane sashes. Two dormers pierce the roofs. Tented first-floor balconies are fitted with cast-iron lattice railings and stanchions. Basement windows are set in segmental arches. The rear elevations feature semicircular-arched stair sashes, and numbers 2, 3, and 7 have bowed first-floor oriels.

Interior spaces include entrance halls divided by semicircular arches, with rear open dogleg stairs furnished with stick balusters and curtails. Six-panel doors and panelled shutters are present throughout.

The subsidiary features include attached wrought-iron spear-headed basement area railings and gates with urn finials, set against Pennant ashlar piers. Squared, coursed Carboniferous limestone walls border the front pavement, raised and curved at the east end with railings. A red sandstone rubble wall extends approximately 50 metres along Canynge Road.

The terrace shares door surrounds and other details with Beaufort Buildings opposite on the Downs. It was known as Beaufort Buildings on Donnes' 1821 map and may have been planned as a composed terrace with raised centre and end sections.