Nos 36-42 Including Front Area Railings

This is a uniform terrace of four early 19th-century houses located on the east side of Bolton Street in Lower Brixham. The houses have solid rendered facades and slated roofs. Each house has a rendered chimney on its left side wall, with the middle two chimneys featuring bracketed cornices. The houses are three storeys high and two windows wide, with a doorway to the right of each. The doorways are round-arched; those at numbers 36, 38 and 40 have rusticated surrounds and keystones carved as bearded masks. The rustication at numbers 36 and 38 is vermiculated, and the reveals of the doors at numbers 36 to 40 are panelled. Fanlights with radial bars are present above the doorways at numbers 36 and 40. Number 42 has a plain, stepped surround with a foliated keystone. The windows have been altered, but the upper storeys of numbers 36 and 42 retain original sash windows, now containing two upright glazing bars per sash. There is a broad sill band in the second storey and a deep, plain eaves cornice. In front of each house is a raised terrace with original iron railings featuring lily-head details on the uprights; the central railing at number 42 is missing. Small round-arched recesses designed for shoe scrapers are located at the foot of the steps leading up to each house. This terrace possesses group value.