Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace is a large-scale, grandly-designed late-Georgian terrace of emphatically urban character. It comprises 10 houses arranged as a symmetrical composition of 3 storeys, with basements, cellars and attics, built in limestone ashlar over a rock-faced basement. The roof is slate, finished with a moulded cornice and parapet, and the building has transverse stone stacks.

The front elevation spans 28 bays. Houses 2 to 9 are 3-bay houses, whilst numbers 1 and 10 have 2 bays to the front. The central 4 bays are brought forward under a pediment, with double-height pilasters over channelled rustication in the lower storey. The middle storey windows have cornices on consoles. The elevation is slightly splayed to right and left, and bays 2–4 and 25–27 are also brought forward with similar treatment to the central 4 bays. A plat band runs between the lower and middle storeys.

Windows in the lower storey are round-headed with small-pane sashes, except in houses 3, 4 and 7 where sash windows have been reinstated in place of inserted French doors. These round-headed windows sit under tripartite lintels. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sashes with panelled aprons, and the upper storey has 9-pane hornless sashes. Entrances are reached by stone steps (replaced at No 1), mostly flanked by square panelled terminal piers at the bottom. The doors are fielded-panel, with round-headed radial-glazed overlights. Basement windows are visible in some houses. Numbers 2 and 6 each have openings with louvres. Numbers 5, 9 and 10 have blocked windows.

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

No 10 has a 2-bay front with 'Victoria Terrace' inscribed into the first-floor band of the right-hand bay. The entrance is in the 3-bay return elevation, a central pointed entrance with stone steps up to a recessed replacement half-glazed door. This 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 4-storey, as the ground sits at basement level. The 4 central bays are recessed. A balcony runs across the first floor, providing access to the upper-level apartments numbered 12–20, reached by stone steps at either end. The basement and ground storeys each have 3-light and 4-light steel-framed casement windows and half-glazed steel-framed doors for the apartments, these inserted in 1937. At the upper level, each apartment has a half-glazed door under a tall overlight with latticework glazing. Windows are small-pane sashes. No 19 also has an inserted window to the right in the upper storey. At the right end, the projecting gable end of No 1 has 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 an inserted window to its left.

Internally, a small vestibule has encaustic tiles to the floor and double half-glazed doors to the entrance hall. The drawing room to the right has panelled reveals.