1-9, Montpellier Terrace

Montpellier Terrace comprises a terrace of five houses, built around 1820-25. They were originally shops and a bank, as recorded at the time of listing, and are shown on a map of 1825. The houses are numbered from left to right and described in the same order. The construction is primarily ashlar over brick, with the right-hand portion (numbers 1-5) being stuccoed and painted. The roofs are slate, with brick and stucco party-wall stacks. Wrought-iron balconies are also present.

The exterior is three storeys high, with two gabled attic storeys, featuring fifteen first-floor windows arranged in a pattern of 3:2:5:2:3. Ashlar detailing includes first and second-floor bands on the left-hand gabled range. The fourth and fifth window ranges project forward, with an attic to the gable, while the eleventh and twelfth also have gables and Doric pilasters extending through the first and second floors. Quoins are located to the left of the sixth window. Windows 6-12 and the return to the first floor have tooled architraves. Windows in the gabled range and those on the ground floor have pulvinated friezes and cornices. A continuous crowning frieze and cornice, a blocking course, and copings complete the top of the building. Replacement windows are mainly 1/1 and 2/2 sashes, with some mock 6/6 sashes; a thermal window is present in the left attic. All windows are set in plain reveals and have sills.

At ground level, number 9 has a central entrance with double-glazed doors within a two-columnar Doric porch, complete with an architrave, frieze, and cornice. The porch is topped with wide friezes and cornices, with C20 glazing in between. Number 7 features a round-arched opening with a five-panel door, a lattice frieze, and a fanlight. The former Midland Bank, now numbers 1-5, has a bank front with Doric pilasters and C20 tooled architraves to the ends and windows. An entrance is positioned at the left angle, within a solid Doric porch, featuring a C20 door and overlight with lattice glazing bars. The right return has two first-floor window ranges with a gable. The first-floor windows here have a pulvinated frieze and cornice. Some 6/6 sashes remain at the rear of the terrace.

The interior has not been inspected.

Subsidiary features include window guards to number 7 with an ornate scroll motif. A balcony above the porch to number 5 has a rod-and-lattice motif. This terrace occupies a prominent corner site and acts as a visual termination to Montpellier Street.