Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace is a large-scale, grandly designed late-Georgian terrace of emphatically urban character. It comprises a symmetrical composition of ten houses arranged in three storeys with basements, cellars and attics, constructed in limestone ashlar over a rock-faced basement, with a slate roof behind a moulded cornice and parapet, and transverse stone stacks. The front elevation spans 28 bays in total.

Houses 2 to 9 are each 3 bays wide, while houses 1 and 10 have 2 bays to the front. The central 4 bays are brought forward under a pediment, featuring double-height pilasters over channelled rustication in the lower storey, with middle storey windows bearing cornices on consoles. The elevation is slightly splayed to the right and left, with bays 2–4 and 25–27 also brought forward and similarly treated. A plat band runs between the lower and middle storeys. Windows in the lower storey are round-headed with small-pane sashes, set under tripartite lintels. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sashes with panelled aprons, while the upper storey features 9-pane hornless sashes. Entrances are reached by stone steps (those to No 1 have been replaced), typically flanked by square panelled terminal piers. Doors are fielded-panel with round-headed radial-glazed overlights. Basement windows are visible in some houses; Nos 2 and 6 have louvred openings, while Nos 5, 9 and 10 have blocked windows. Sash windows have been reinstated in Nos 3, 4 and 7 in place of inserted French doors.

No 1 has a 2-bay front elevation, the left-hand bay being rounded with triple 8-pane hornless sashes in the lower storey, a moulded impost band carried over the windows and apron, a similar but plainer square-headed middle storey window, and a square-headed triple 6-pane sash window in the upper storey. The left-hand return elevation is 3 bays with similar details. Basement windows have railed lightwells except the right-hand bay, which is blocked.

No 10 has a 2-bay front elevation, the right-hand bay bearing the inscription 'Victoria Terrace' in the first-floor band. The entrance is located in the 3-bay return elevation, a central pointed opening with stone steps leading to a recessed replacement half-glazed door. The return has square-headed windows with 12-pane and 9-pane hornless sashes, though the left-hand bay is blind. Basement windows are blocked.

The rear elevation is pebble-dashed and effectively four storeys, as the ground level sits at basement level. The 4 central bays are recessed. A balcony extends across the first floor, providing access to upper-level apartments (Nos 12–20), reached by stone steps at either end. Basement and ground storeys contain 3-light and 4-light steel-framed casement windows and half-glazed steel-framed doors inserted in 1937, serving 2-window apartments. Upper-level apartments each have a half-glazed door beneath a tall overlight with latticework glazing, and small-pane sash windows. No 19 has an additional inserted window to the right in the upper storey. At the right end, the projecting gable end of No 1 features a lean-to in the lower storey, two 12-pane hornless sashes in the middle storey, two 9-pane hornless sashes in the upper storey, and in the attic two 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes and a 4-pane horned sash window. At the left end, the entrance to No 20 is in the return elevation with a half-glazed door and inserted window to its left.