Royal Terrace

Royal Terrace comprises three houses at the end of a terrace, built in 1816. The buildings are constructed of rendered material with slate roofs. They follow a one-room width, double-depth plan with a double roof to a central valley, and include a side entry leading to a rear dogleg staircase and lower service ranges.

The three houses develop to four storeys at the rear due to the sloping ground. Each has three windows, with sash windows to stone sills. The first-floor sashes in No. 82 have retained bars and small 20th-century balcony railings. No. 82 has two original flat-roofed dormers with 2-light casements above plain sashes. No. 83 has similar dormers, but retains nine-pane sashes at the second floor and fifteen-pane sashes at the first floor, also with individual cast-iron balconies. No. 84, the end house, has two gabled dormers, a four-pane sash at the second floor and a plain sash to the first and ground floors. The basement windows have glazing-bar sashes.

The front of No. 84 has an original panelled door, set back on eight tiled steps within a plain arched reveal and topped with a radial fanlight. Architectural detailing includes a deep plain band at basement level, a plain band to the first floor, a moulded cornice, a blocking course cut down opposite a dormer on No. 83, and a parapet with two stacks to each party wall. Original spearhead railings extend across the full front of No. 84, returning to the door and stopping at the outer end with a rendered wall, incorporating a gate to the stone basement steps. The rear elevation of Nos. 82 and 83 is similarly rendered and features an eaves roof rather than a parapet. Some of the rear walling is in English garden wall bonding. No. 82 has an early three-storey gabled wing and a 20th-century tiled extension, No. 83 has two dormers, and No. 84 a lower hipped service range. The gable facing Gloucester Street is plain. Royal Terrace originally comprised eighteen houses, built in two phases, with stepped end ranges; these three houses represent the right-hand three of the initial phase. The interior has not been inspected.