Numbers 1-5 Radipole Terrace

Numbers 1-5 Radipole Terrace is a terrace of five single-storey houses, likely originally officers' accommodation, built in 1798. The terrace was designed by Alexander Copland, a London contractor, for the Barrack Master, General Col DeLancey. The buildings are rendered, some with exposed timber framing, some to brickwork; Number 1 has some exposed mathematical tiling, concealed elsewhere, with slate roofs.

The terrace is set at a right angle to Dorchester Road and backs onto Alexandra Road. Originally, it faced a large parade ground, part of Radipole Cavalry Barracks. Each bungalow features a front door with a large window on either side and a rear gabled wing extending through to Alexandra Road.

Number 1 has three sixteen-pane sashes in moulded boxes in its end gable, with similar sashes to the front. Its panelled, part-glazed door previously had a transom light, now blocked. Number 2 has replacement windows and a door with a transom light. Number 3 retains a twelve-pane sash to the right, with French doors with margin-panes to the left of the central flush four-panelled door which has a three-pane transom light. Numbers 4 and 5 have replacement doors and windows. There are three ridge stacks, the central one cropped to ridge level. The interior was not inspected.

These buildings have special historic interest as they represent almost all that remains of a large barracks complex begun in 1798 and extended in 1800 and 1804, which housed a maximum complement of 953 officers and men and 986 horses. The use of mathematical tiles is architecturally notable, representing the furthest westerly penetration of that method. At the time of survey, some timber framing was exposed to the front of Number 1, and mathematical tiles were visible at plinth level.

They formed part of a chain of one-troop cavalry barracks along the south coast planned by DeLancey. In conjunction with numbers 24 and 26 Alexandra Road, they are of considerable historic importance as examples of semi-permanent military accommodation, situated between the temporary use of rented warehouses and barns during the Napoleonic Wars and the more permanent, costly option of brick barracks.