1-5 Victoria Terrace Including Raised Pavement and Railing

Victoria Terrace comprises a row of five houses dating from the 1830s and 1840s, with later 19th-century additions. The fronts are solid and rendered, with tarred slate roofs, and large rendered chimneys featuring a variety of pots, some spiked, and others rounded with mouldings. The terrace rises three storeys, with garrets added later at numbers 3 and 4. Numbers 1 and 2 have a two-window arrangement, with a single window centrally placed on the ground floor and a doorway to the left. Numbers 3, 4, and 5 are set slightly forward and feature a window to the right of each storey, with a doorway to the left. The doorways at numbers 1 and 2 have round arches, moulded architraves, and scroll keystones; number 1 has a four-panelled door. Windows are largely 8-paned sashes, except for the upper-storey windows at number 1, which have two panes with a single upright glazing bar. Ground-floor windows have moulded cornices, with number 2's cornice supported by consoles. A raised band runs above the ground floor, and a moulded board sits below the eaves. Doorways at numbers 3 and 4 have broad cement surrounds, moulded cornices on consoles, and number 4 has a decorated frieze. Number 5 features a door with six flush panels. Windows at number 3 are late 19th or early 20th century 2-light casements with wooden mullions and transoms; the ground-floor window has a cornice on consoles. Windows at numbers 4 and 5 are 8-paned sashes with horns. Dormer windows are present at numbers 3 and 4 – the one at number 3 is hipped with a 2-light wood casement, and the one at number 4 is gabled with 8-paned sashes (with horns) at the front and small-paned glazing to the sides. The interior remains unexamined. A raised pavement runs along the front of the terrace, with rendered fronts and exposed natural rock at the base, covered with paving stones (cemented over at number 3). A ramp at the left-hand end, adjacent to Honestone Street, has a border of cobbles at either side, partly cemented over. A 19th-century iron railing, with a heart pattern enriched with lilies, honeysuckle, and a Vitruvian scroll, runs in front of Victoria Terrace. A simpler iron railing with spear-head uprights is located in front of the ramp. Victoria Terrace appears on Wood’s 1842 map of Bideford, showing six houses rather than the present five.