Numbers 1 To 14 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Area Railings

A terrace of 14 consecutive houses built between 1809 and 1814 by John Drew, with the attic storeys added later by Steven Hunter. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with render on some surfaces, and have party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. They are arranged with a double-depth plan and are in a Late Georgian style.

Each house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The terrace forms a convex crescent, accessed from the rear, and features pilasters to the cornice and rusticated detailing to the ground floor. The windows are predominantly 6/6-pane sashes on the ground floor, with 9/9-pane sashes above; a range of dormers are present, while numbers 11 to 13 have full attic storeys with sunken panels in the frieze. First-floor balconies are constructed of tented wrought iron with lattice railings and cast-lead ornament, and have coved bargeboards with Vitruvian scroll detailing.

A full-width projecting vaulted terrace walk is positioned at the front, built with rubble and a balustrade. The rear entrance elevation is rendered and features pilasters to a cornice and parapet, rusticated detailing to the ground floor (with banding at numbers 11 to 13), a shallow first-floor impost and second-floor sill bands. Bowed, single-storey porches are present to the right of each house, except number 2, which has a semicircular arched architrave, a 5-pane fanlight, and a six-panel door. First-floor windows have raised cornices, while those on the second floor have shouldered architraves. Numbers 11 to 13 feature windows with small aprons; their cornices project forward and have moulded semicircular-arched hoods. The left return elevation is three-windows wide, with a rusticated ground floor, a coped attic gable, a blind ground-floor window, and a single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, a three-pane fanlight and a six-panel door. Wrought-iron basket balconies are found to the first floor.

The interior has not been inspected. Attached front area railings are present, consisting of wrought-iron spear-headed railings to numbers 2, 3, 6 and 11, and cast-iron mid-19th century barley-sugar railings to the remainder. The terrace forms part of the important view of Clifton from the south, across the Avon.