Numbers 1-4 (Consecutive) And Attached Walls And Gate Piers And Railings

Numbers 1-4, South View, Teignmouth, is a terrace of four houses dating to the 1870s. The houses are built with a red Flemish-bond brick core, rendered externally, and have continuous slate roofs with moulded stacks, although the modillion cornices are now only visible to the left-hand end (Number 2) and party walls. They have double-depth plans.

The houses are three storeys high with attics and semi-basements, and each has a four-window range, including three windows to a canted bay. The windows are sash windows with two horizontal panes in each sash, set in moulded architraves with keystones. A moulded sill string course runs along the second floor. The first-floor windows of Number 1 and the bays of Numbers 2 and 3 have cornices; rusticated quoins highlight the corners. Numbers 1 and 4 each have large canted bays with cast-iron balconettes to all but the basement windows and hipped roofs to the outer ends – the roof to Number 4 has been altered. Numbers 2 and 3 have gabled, stepped-forward outer ranges that incorporate flat-roofed canted bays up to the first floor, flanked by set-back ranges with porches and doors. Steps lead to six-panel doors with semicircular overlights, set in slightly pedimented projecting porches, each of which is covered by a semicircular-arched window on both upper floors. Numbers 2 and 3 share a late 19th-century canopy over their central porch. The upper floors have semicircular-arched windows with paired lights to the attics, a tripartite window to the second floor, and a single light on either side of the bays. The ground floor and basement windows are segmental-arched. Number 1 and 4 have segmental-arched windows, except to the first floor. A rendered brick stack on the left return in Northumberland Place has painted brick panels with concave corners on each stage.

Early photographs indicate the original construction comprised brickwork with freestone and rendered details. The interiors were not inspected during the listing process.

Originally, the front gardens were enclosed by railings. The low, rendered brick plinths front the site, ramping up to the doors. The rendered piers have plinths, exposed brick panels with concave corners, cornices, and shallow pyramidal caps. Cast-iron railings are present to the doorsteps of Number 1 and between Numbers 2 and 3.

The terrace occupies a prominent location between earlier, early to mid-19th century seaside terraces, including Powderham Terrace, The Den, and the terraces by Patey on Den Crescent.