Numbers 14 To 34 (Consecutive And Attached Front Basement Area Railings

This is a terrace of twenty houses, numbers 14 to 34, built consecutively and attached, with associated basement area railings. The houses date from circa 1843 and were designed by T Foster and W Oakley. They are constructed of limestone ashlar, with party wall stacks, and have slate and pantile double-pile roofs. Each house is of double-depth plan and represents a Late Georgian style incorporating Greek Revival detailing.

The terrace rises in a stepped formation, with a banded ground floor, a plat band, giant pilasters reaching to a frieze, an overlapping cornice, and a coped attic storey. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, and originally had a three-window front, though number 34 has a single window to the left. The right-hand doorways are set within battered recessed surrounds with raised lintels, above which are overlights with three round and margin panes. The doors are of eight panels, with the upper six panels raised on numbers 14 to 22. The window glazing consists of 6/6-pane sashes to the main floors and 3/6-pane sashes to the attic.

The first-floor features good contemporary stone balconies supported on cast-iron brackets. These balconies have cast-iron pedimented lattice sections separated by panels with anthemion arched tops, cobweb spandrels and arrow braces. Steps lead down to the basement areas, providing access to basement doors and service cellars which extend beneath the road.

The rear elevations incorporate large lunette stair windows. Internally, the entrance hall is divided by a flat arch with guilloche side panels, leading to an open stone dogleg staircase with decorated cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail. The upper houses include timber stairs. A stone basement stair has wrought-iron railings. A front room on the first floor features good anthemion cornices and a marble fire surround with attached Ionic columns. Further interior details include six-panel doors and panelled shutters. The basement rooms have semicircular-arched recesses and an arched passage leading to the cellars. The lower houses were originally supplied with water from a Clifton spring, and retained stone sinks in the basements with hand pumps.

Attached cast-iron railings with a bud-headed design enclose the basement area, along with gates. The terrace forms an important group with numbers 1 to 31 Caledonia Place opposite, and with numbers 1 to 14 West Mall and numbers 32 to 44 Caledonia Place, representing a uniquely formal planned square for Clifton.