Numbers 1 To 4 And Attached Walls, Steps And Railings

Numbers 1 to 4, along with the attached walls, steps, and railings, form a planned mews terrace built in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed of stucco with stucco detailing and feature asbestos slate parallel roofs, with copings over the party walls and brick end and axial stacks. The layout consists of a double-depth plan, where the two central houses each have two rooms at the front and central entrances, while the end houses each have one room at the front with entrances next to the central houses.

The exterior stands two storeys over a basement and features a window arrangement of 2:3:3:2. The central houses have segmental-arched openings, with a pair of round-arched lights above the central doorways. The end houses have a similar single light above their doorways and tripartite windows separated by a moulded entablature and a mid-floor string, which is plain on the other sides. Additional stucco details include channelled rustication and keyed arches with voussoirs at the ground floor, rusticated quoins on the end houses at the first floor, and most first-floor windows featuring plain architraves or pilasters and keyed arches. The buildings may still have original horned sashes, overlights, and panelled doors.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The subsidiary features include forecourt walls, boundary walls, and entrance bridges with ramped walls topped with wrought-iron railings that have arrow-head finials and turned stanchions with turned finials. This group of terraces and villas, designed by Foulston and his pupil Wightwick, is significant in the context of early to mid-19th century town planning in Plymouth.