Portland Terrace

Portland Terrace is a terrace of eight houses built around 1840 in Torquay. The houses are stuccoed with slate roofs, with gables at the right end of No.115 and a hipped roof at the left end of No.129. They have brick stacks with rendered shafts and platbands.

The houses have a double-depth plan, one room wide, with front doors on the left side and a piano nobile. Each house has a rear closet projection and small rear yard. The external appearance is of three storeys and a basement; each front is two bays wide and divided by pilasters rising from a first-floor platband. A second-floor sill band and eaves band are also present. The doorways have a round head with a plain fanlight and rusticated vermiculated quoins similar to those found on buildings in Exeter’s Southernhay. Some variation exists in the doorway details between the houses. Original four-panel doors remain. The ground-floor windows are 12-pane sash windows. The first-floor windows are 6-over-9-pane sash windows with floating cornices on consoles. The second-floor windows are 3-over-6-pane sash windows. Balconies are present to some first-floor windows - Nos. 125 and 127 have columnar verticals and No. 119 has an anthemia design. No. 129 has a symmetrical front with a two-storey entrance block set back at the left end, featuring a doorway with a shallow doorcase and an entablature. The rear elevations include tall stair windows, with margin panes visible on No.115. The interiors were not inspected but are likely to contain features of interest.