Numbers 1 To 13 And Attached Front Basement Area Railings

Numbers 1 to 13 West Mall is a terrace of thirteen houses built in 1788, likely designed by John Eveleigh. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. They are arranged in a double-depth plan and represent a late Georgian style. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window front.

The terrace is a composed design, with the end and middle houses projecting forward, featuring pediments, first-floor sill bands, and central windows topped with first-floor pediments. Pilaster strips articulate the building to a cornice and parapet, with a rusticated plat band at ground floor level. Full attic storeys were added later to numbers 2, 3, 11, and 13. The front entrances have panelled pilasters, entablature blocks with paterae, open pediments, semicircular arched doorways. Number 8 features a stellate fanlight above the door, while the others have plate glass and six-panel doors with raised upper panels. The ground-floor windows have incised voussoirs and contain 6/6-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows have 3/6-pane sashes. There are two dormers on each building.

Number 9 has a wrought-iron tented balcony with lattice railings, number 11 has first-floor French windows leading to a tented balcony with cast-iron railings and foliate brackets to fluted stanchions, and number 2 has a first-floor balcony featuring wrought-iron railings and cobweb spandrels. The right return of the terrace has a three-window range, with the left side being blind. It also features a matching doorway with panelled reveals, and an early 19th-century shop window with an eared architrave, moulded consoles to a cornice, and painted glass facia.

The interior includes an entrance hall divided by a panelled arch leading to an open dogleg staircase with stick balusters, column newels, a curtail and ramped rail. First-floor rooms are linked by panelled folding doors, and feature marble fire surrounds, six-panel doors, and panelled shutters. Number 1 retains good 19th-century shop fittings, including display cases with pediments, and a painted ceiling.

Attached to the front are cast-iron basement area railings and gates with bud heads. The terrace forms an important group with numbers 32 to 44 Caledonia Place and, together with numbers 1 to 31 Caledonia Place and 14 to 34 West Mall, creates a formal planned square, unique for Clifton.