Numbers 1 To 14 Lansdown Place And Attached Front Area Balustrades And Piers

Numbers 1 to 14 Lansdown Place is a terrace of fourteen houses built in 1835 by Foster and Son. The architecture is Neoclassical in style, constructed from limestone ashlar with party wall stacks. The houses are arranged over three storeys, with attics and basements, and feature a double-depth plan.

The terrace is formal, with projecting end and central sections (incorporating the middle four houses), separated by linking sections that lack attics. The ground floor is banded to a frieze and cornice, with a second-floor sill band and giant pilasters to a frieze and modillion cornice. A coped attic is topped with balustrades to the linking sections. The end houses have pilasters flanking each of the two windows, along with entrances in their return elevations. Right-hand doorways are adorned with consoles, and feature 6-panel doors with margin and overlights. Ground-floor windows are tripartite, with architraves above, while the ends have tripartite windows to the first floor, with 6/6-pane sashes and 3/3-pane attic sashes. Continuous balconies are present on the first floor, supported by cast-iron brackets and bowed railings, with tented wrought-iron sections at numbers 5 and 9. The right-hand end elevation includes a single-storey porch with pilasters and a right-hand wing with a ground-floor bow. Rear elevations of the end houses are articulated in a similar manner to the front.

The interior features a large, flagged entrance hall with a stone staircase that divides below the first floor, leading to the front and back. The stair has cast-iron balusters and a curtail, and a large stained-glass window at the rear. An upper timber staircase has stick balusters and a ramped rail. Decorative foliate cornices, 6-panel doors, and panelled shutters are also present, alongside fireplaces extending up to the attic.

Attached to the terrace are cast-iron front area balustrades, pedimented piers, and railings, which constitute subsidiary features. The terrace represents an early example of the mid-19th century Clifton terraces, evolving from the Portland Square arrangement with its raised end and central sections. The terrace enjoys a prominent location overlooking Victoria Square, characterized by wide flagged pavements.