1-9, Devonshire Terrace

Devonshire Terrace is a terrace of nine houses built in the 1830s, with later additions in the 1840s and subsequent alterations. The buildings are constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with light brick headers, sitting on a chamfered stone plinth. The dressings are of calciferous sandstone, with V-jointed quoins on the end houses. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate, with hipped ends; two houses feature roof dormers, and original shared ridge brick chimney stacks are present. The terrace is two storeys high, with two or three bays per house. The houses are arranged in groups of two and three, each group featuring a different roofline that steps up the slope. Number 1 has a three-bay return fronting onto Cavendish Terrace, and Number 9 has a three-bay return onto St George’s Crescent.

The front doors are panelled and set within prostyle Ionic porches with steps, accompanied by overlights. Sash windows, some with glazing bars, are set within stone architraves, though many ground floor windows have been replaced with later 19th-century canted or square bay windows. Segmental stone carriage arches are positioned between many of the houses; some are open, whilst others have plank and panelled double doors. Number 1 features a tetrastyle porch on its return.

The interiors retain some panelled shutters to ground- and first-floor windows, along with panelled doors. Principal rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices and central roundels, with some featuring marble fireplaces. The terrace was built on land belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, giving the terrace its name. Records from 1832 mention Isaac Bond in relation to Devonshire Terrace. The 1839 Tithe map shows only five houses, with numbers 1 and 2 originally combined as a single dwelling. By 1847, seven families resided in the terrace, and the numbering appeared to cease at number 7 by 1850/51. A 1857 sales notice in the Carlisle Patriot confirms the terrace was complete by that date, with its current numbering.