Charlotte Row (Terrace)

Charlotte Row is a terrace of holiday accommodation above public toilets, formerly a Westminster Bank, built in 1883. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with Portland stone ashlar dressings and a green Westmorland slate roof. It presents a vigorous interpretation of French Renaissance architecture with Flemish Renaissance details.

The building has a long, shallow plan and fronts onto both Bond Street and the Esplanade. The Bond Street elevation has two bays, plus a single-storey, flat-roofed pavilion to the right. A steep hipped roof is set behind a balustrade parapet with plain panels, above main walling carried out in flush banded brick and stonework, influenced by Norman Shaw.

The main range features lofty, Dutch-gabled dormers with scrolled pediments behind the balustrade, which incorporates corner urns. Below the dormers are deep, semicircular oriels across two floors, containing plain lights with curved plate glass and a transom at the first floor. The stonework is elaborately detailed with decorative pilasters and moulded entablatures; the oriels are supported by bold, paired stone brackets springing from broad mullions in the ground-floor windows, which are 2 and 3-light respectively. A recessed arched doorway, flanked by an entablature and a high, trapezoidal head with scrolls and a small pediment, leads to the original three-panelled door, which retains its embellishments. The ashlar plinth rises to the ground floor sill level and contains two openings with segmental heads to Mannerist keystones, and a grille providing pavement access to a basement.

To the right, the single-storey pavilion features a tall light with a transom, and a small square opening with a door and transom light below. It has a stone balustrade with plain panels, continued to the short return front containing a pair of 2-light casements with a transom and king mullion. The shared party wall to the left has a tall banded stack with a dentil capping, and a slated gable roof extending to the steep hipped end with a vase-like finial. The Esplanade front has a single light on each side of central walling at the first and second floors, visible beneath the continued balustrade with corner urns. A lofty banded stack, tied back to the steep hipped roof by a slated gable roof, is centrally positioned, with a decorative scrolled pediment at half-height and a dentil cornice to the capping.

The interior has not been inspected.