Marian

Marian: 4-8 Bulkeley Terrace and 1 Raglan Street

A late-Georgian style terrace of three-storey, three-bay houses. The majority of the frontage is pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered architraves, sill and head bands, except for No 4 which is scribed roughcast painted cream. The roof is slate, hipped to the left over No 8, with added skylights and brick and roughcast ridge stacks, plus two stacks at the left end.

Windows throughout are mainly 12-pane hornless sashes in the lower and middle storeys, with shorter 9-pane hornless sashes in the upper storey. The central bays in each house have blind middle and upper-storey windows.

No 4 has its entrance to the right, with a recessed panelled door and overlight. Windows have surrounds with stopped chamfers; the top row of panes in the lower-storey windows has been replaced by a single pane.

No 5 features a 20th-century shop front framed by Tuscan pilasters with a fascia bearing a modern sign and moulded cornice. A replaced panelled door stands to the left, a small-pane window to the centre, and another small-pane window to the right, probably occupying the position of a former doorway.

No 6 has its entrance in the right-hand bay: a panel door with fielded upper panels and overlight, set in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers. Windows are replacement sashes.

No 7 has a panelled door to the left with fielded upper panels and overlight, in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers. The basement features a segmental-headed window.

No 8 occupies a corner site and contains a shop front (Gabriela) in the lower storey. It has a plain shop window to Castle Street framed by simple pilasters, a fascia with added modern sign and moulded cornice. The entrance is in the splayed corner with a replacement half-glazed door under a hood mould. The main angle of the building is deeply chamfered in the middle storey. The left side wall, facing Raglan Street, has a shop window similar to the Castle Street front, with a half-glazed door under a round-headed overlight serving No 1 Raglan Street. Above are central hornless sash windows: 12-pane in the middle storey and 9-pane in the upper storey, flanked by blind windows.

The rear elevation shows variation in detail but shares the same basic three-bay structure. All have 12-pane hornless sashes in lower and middle storeys and shorter 9-pane sashes in the upper storey with blind central window. The basement storey is of painted dressed stone with altered openings.

No 8 is pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered architraves and lower and middle-storey sill bands. It has a fielded-panel door to the left under a round-headed overlight.

No 7 is pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered keyed architraves in lower and middle storeys and plain architraves in the upper storey. The entrance in the right-hand bay has a panel door and round-headed overlight in a plain architrave, beneath a moulded cornice on head corbels.

No 6 is rendered with moulded architraves in the lower and middle storeys and a middle-storey sill band. Its entrance is on the left side in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers, a moulded cornice on consoles, and a circa 1900 half-glazed door with overlight.

No 5 is rendered with moulded architraves to lower and middle storeys and a middle-storey sill band. It has three ground-floor windows, the narrower left-hand window being a former doorway, and replacement horned sashes.

No 4, also rendered, has moulded architraves with pediments on consoles to the lower and middle-storey windows. The left-hand entrance has a plain architrave and pediment with a half-lit panelled door and overlight of late 19th or early 20th-century date.