Numbers 1-5 Including Front Garden Walls And Gateposts

This is a terrace of five houses located on Montpellier Road, Ilfracombe, built in the mid-19th century. The houses have solid rendered walls and slated roofs, with red brick chimneys featuring stone quoins and round chimney pots (those at numbers 3 and 4 were rebuilt in 1990). They are two storeys high, with garrets, and have two-window frontages; numbers 2 and 3, and numbers 4 and 5 are designed as mirrored pairs. The ground floors are rusticated, rising to continued sills on the second storey. One house has a round-arched doorway with a raised, rusticated surround and a triple keystone, while another features a wooden canted bay window with a pent roof. There are two round-arched windows at the second-floor level. A stepped detail is visible below the eaves. Gabled dormers are present (except at number 1), each with a round-arched window. Windows were replaced in the late 20th century at numbers 3 and 4 (except for those in the dormers), and in the bay window at number 1. The remaining ground and second-floor windows have sash windows with a single horizontal glazing bar each, while the dormer windows have plain sashes. Internal inspections of numbers 2, 3, and 4 revealed largely complete interiors with staircases, panelled doors and architraves, panelled cupboard doors, cornices, and original chimneypieces. Number 2 contains a fitted wooden dresser in the kitchen, while number 3 has lost the attic balustrade of its staircase and had its chimneypieces replaced in the mid-20th century. The front garden walls at numbers 2 and 5 are constructed of squared stone rubble with red brick copings. Five square stone gate piers, topped with rounded features, mark the entrances; a single pier of the same type is at number 3. The gate pier at number 5 has an ornate iron lamp standard, though the lamp itself is missing.