Westbourne Terrace

Nos 1, 2 and 3 Westbourne Terrace

A terrace of three houses, built around 1875. No 3 is now part of the Pen and Quill Public House, which is listed separately.

The main range is three storeys tall, constructed of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The front elevation faces Shuttern, while the side of No 1 faces Burton Place. The curved bay at the street corner is also in ashlar. Brick is used for dressings at the rear of the main range, and each house has a brick rear wing except for No 1, which has a rubble rear wing with an ashlar side wall facing Burton Place. Slate roofs cover the buildings. The main roof is hipped with projecting eaves to both front and side, supported on closely spaced ornate timber brackets. Two large ashlar ridge stacks with bracketed cornices and terracotta pots rise from the roof. Two-storey gabled rear wings extend to the rear of each house.

The street facades are uniform in design and executed in a simple Italianate style. Each house features an ashlar-framed semicircular arched doorway with quoined jambs and stepped voussoirs with a raised keyblock. To the left of each doorway is an ashlar-framed sash window on each floor, similarly detailed with quoined jambs, flat arched heads, voussoirs and keyblocks. A continuous ashlar plinth course runs along the base, with a string course at first-floor sill level. The curved bay at the street corner is slightly recessed behind quoined angles to both front and side facades. The curved bay, side bay and rear wing of No 1 all have sash windows similar to those on the front elevation, one per floor. Each house has a six-panel door with a plain fanlight above. The sashes throughout have a single vertical bar.

The building is listed for group value only.