Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace comprises a large-scale, grandly-designed late-Georgian terrace of emphatically urban conception. It is a symmetrical composition of 10 houses of 3 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.

Houses Nos 2–9 are 3-bay houses, while Nos 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. Middle storey windows have cornices on consoles. To the right and left the elevation is slightly splayed, and bays 2–4 and 25–7 are also brought forward with similar treatment to the 4 central bays. A plat band runs between the lower and middle storeys.

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

No 1 has 2 bays to the front, of which the left-hand bay is rounded with triple 8-pane hornless sashes in the lower storey with 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 details similar to the front. Basement windows have railed lightwells, except the right-hand bay where the window is blocked.

No 10 has 2 bays to the front, of which the right-hand bay has 'Victoria Terrace' inscribed into the first-floor band. The entrance is in the 3-bay return elevation, comprising a central pointed entrance with stone steps up to a recessed, replacement half-glazed door. This elevation has square-headed windows with 12-pane and 9-pane hornless sashes, but 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 extends across the first floor, providing access to the upper-level apartments, Nos 12–20, reached by stone steps at either end. The basement and ground storeys have, to each 2-window apartment, 3-light and 4-light steel-framed casement windows and half-glazed steel-framed doors, inserted in 1937. At the upper level, each apartment has a half-glazed door under a tall overlight with latticework glazing and small-pane sash windows. 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 and has a half-glazed door with an inserted window to its left.