Leicester Terrace

Leicester Terrace is a group of nine houses built around 1852 by Pope, Bindon and Clarke. The terrace is constructed of limestone ashlar with brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Each house has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys high, with an attic and basement. They are arranged in a stepped, slightly concave layout.

The ground floor features rusticated stonework up to a band, while upper pilasters sit on scrolled corbels that support a frieze with strapwork. Overlapping cornices define the levels, and the attic has its own cornice and parapet. The left-hand doorways are particularly elaborate, with consoles to raised jambs, plate-glass overlights and six-panel doors. Subsidiary pilasters frame the ground- and first-floor windows, which are paired on the ground floor, tripartite with cornices on the first floor, and tripartite with architraves and shallow sill blocks on the second floor. The attic windows are also tripartite and have incised surrounds. Windows are mostly 2/2-pane sashes with margin bars on the ground floor, 6/6-pane above, and 3/6-pane on the second floor. Balconies at the first floor are supported by cast-iron brackets with bowed cast-iron railings. The interior details remain unexamined.