Numbers 15 To 25 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Basement Area And Garden Railings To North East

A terrace of eleven houses, numbers 15 to 25, built around 1855 by J Marmont in the Italianate style. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with party wall stacks and a combination of pantile and slate hipped and mansard roofs. They are arranged with a double-depth plan, and each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement. Each house features a three-window range, though the end and central houses are stepped forward to create a “palace front” effect. This design incorporates rusticated pilasters to a cornice, supported by large consoles, and a coped attic storey. The facade includes a plat band, sill bands, and strings to the upper floors, alongside a continuous first-floor balcony. The balcony is supported by cast-iron brackets, featuring elaborate railings with round panels and foliate finials. Ground-floor windows are framed by architraves, and the doorways have overlights and four-panel doors. First-floor windows are semicircular-arched with imposts, and shields are set between the panels. Second-floor windows are paired semicircular-arched, within round arches, with sunken spandrels and aprons of intersecting circles. The windows are plate-glass sashes, with French windows on the first floor. The attic has paired semicircular-arched windows between panelled pilasters. The end and centre houses have segmental pediments over their attic windows, a second, smaller attic storey above, with three windows centrally, and large acroteria on the parapet corners. Side entrances to the end houses are within symmetrical one-window range facades, leading to single-storey porches with open fronts and rusticated sides, and windows above set between rusticated pilasters. The interior of the houses has not been inspected. Attached to the front is a basement area with cast-iron railings and gates. Although less detailed than the Royal Promenade, this terrace is highly influential and forms part of a remarkable group, demonstrating a move away from earlier 19th-century classicism.