Numbers 27-33 And Attached Plinths And Piers

A terrace of seven double-fronted houses, numbers 27 to 33, built in the mid-19th century as part of a development for the Courtenay family, designed by J.W. Rowell around 1840-60. The terrace steps downhill from number 27. The houses are constructed of painted stucco with slate roofs, featuring stacks to the party walls and ends, and dentil cornices. Each house is a symmetrical three-bay, four-window range. They include an eaves band, plain pilasters, a moulded first-floor sill string course, a similar course just below, and banded rustication to the ground floor. The central bay of each house projects with a shallow-pitched bracketed gable above the eaves. This bay is flanked by pilasters which meet as a semicircular arch above paired 2/2-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars, moulded imposts and archivolts. A shallow balcony, with cast-iron balustrades to numbers 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32, sits below the sill, supported by elaborate consoles, and provides a porch over a set-back semicircular-arched door with a fanlight. Original doors are present to numbers 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32, consisting of two vertical panels; number 29 has a four-panel door, and number 33 has a late 19th-century six-panel door with chamfered arrises. The first-floor windows have 6/6-pane sash windows flanked by pilasters between the eaves band and the sill string, with brackets to the sills connecting these strings and flanking panelled aprons. Ground-floor windows are 2/2-pane tripartite sashes with horizontal glazing bars. The interior was not inspected. The terrace is fronted by a plinth to former railings connected to the houses by dividing walls terminating in pyramidal-capped piers. The terrace is remarkably well-preserved, demonstrating an important example group value.