Eliot Terrace

A row of four attached houses, originally with shops on the ground floor, dating to the mid-17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The houses are constructed of slatestone rubble, partly rendered. They have slate roofs that are hipped, with ridge tiles, along with rendered stacks at the ends to the right and left, an axial stack between numbers 2 and 3, and an axial stack to number 4.

The layout of numbers 1 and 2 is of a pair, with a central pair of entrances. There is one room to the left, heated by an end stack, and one room to the right, with a front lateral stack, and a gable end stack heating the room at first floor to the right. Number 3 has its entrance to the left side, with one room to the right, heated by an axial stack. Number 4 has its entrance to the left end and a room to the right, heated by an end stack. The front rooms of numbers 3 and 4 were originally shops, now all living accommodation.

Numbers 1 and 2 are to the left and are two storeys high. They feature a pair of 20th-century doors with moulded timber lintels. A 4-light casement window with ovolo-moulded mullions and a moulded lintel, and 3-pane casements, plus L hinges, is on the left. A similar 4-light window is on the right, and at first floor there are two 3-light and a central 4-light 20th-century casements with moulded timber lintels. To the right of the door to number 2 is an external rubble stack, with the chimney removed.

Numbers 3 and 4 have rendered first floor elevations. Number 3 has a panelled and glazed door with a 2-pane sidelight to the left, and to the right, the original 17th-century shop window, which consists of three 9-pane lights with ovolo-moulded mullions. Number 4 has a panelled and glazed door within an ovolo-moulded frame, with a window to the right of two 9-pane lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and frame, all set under a first floor string course. At first floor, there are two oriels on carved brackets, with ovolo-moulded mullions and a 4-light casement, along with deep eaves. Number 3 has a doorframe moulded with scroll stops; number 4 has a moulded doorframe with large rounded stops. A stack is corbelled out at first floor on the left side, with a blocked door to the left. At first floor, there is a 2-light casement with a replaced 20th-century mullion, and a moulded timber lintel. The right side is rendered with a 20th-century window at first floor to the right.

The interior has been altered, with straight stairs inserted in the passage entrances. Number 1 has a cupboard to the right of the ground floor fireplace, with a 2-panelled door in the position of a former external door. Numbers 3 and 4 have ovolo-moulded mullions inside the oriel windows. The roof structure has not been inspected.