Numbers 2 To 34 And Attached Area Railings

This is a terrace of seventeen houses, now used as houses, flats, and a hotel, built between 1825 and 1836. The terrace was designed by William Jay as part of a larger development for Joseph Pitt. The buildings are constructed of brick with stucco facades, and have slate roofs, with brick and stucco party-wall stacks.

The architectural style is characterized by a symmetrical design with entrances on the right-hand side of each house. Numbers 4 and 6, 14, and 22 project slightly forward. The facades incorporate ground- and first-floor plat bands, a moulded second-floor band, full-height Tuscan pilasters between the windows of number 2, Ionic pilasters at number 4, pilaster strips at number 6, and a stepped recessed panel to the central windows of number 14. A frieze, cornice, and blocking course complete the detailing. Most windows are 6/6 sash windows, although some are 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes. The windows are set within plain reveals; those on the ground and second floors have sills. Number 30 has a roof dormer with a casement window. The rear of the terrace features numerous 6/6 sash windows, and the right return has blind openings.

Internally, original joinery, including panelled shutters, remains. Photographs from 1991 show that number 12 retains an embellished acanthus cornice, a foliate ceiling frieze, and an egg-and-dart pelmet.

The terrace is accompanied by area railings, although these are missing from number 16. The railings feature alternate stick and ogeed trefoil heads, and anthemions to the stanchions (except at numbers 4 and 16). Continuous first-floor verandahs with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrades, scrolled uprights, and openwork friezes are present at numbers 2, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 24. Similar individual first-floor window balconies exist at numbers 4, 6, 8, 20, 28, and 32, with further continuous balconies at numbers 30 and 34. Number 8 features window guards with an anthemion motif. The end returns have raised parapets, ramping upwards.