Victoria Terrace

Victoria Terrace comprises numbers 1-20, a large-scale grandly-designed late-Georgian terrace of emphatically urban conception. It is a symmetrical composition of ten houses of 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.

Numbers 2-9 are three-bay houses, while numbers 1 and 10 have two bays to the front. The central four 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 as the central four bays. Between lower and middle storeys is a plat band.

Windows in the lower storey are round-headed with small-pane sashes under tripartite lintels. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sashes with panelled aprons, and the upper storey has 9-pane hornless sashes. In numbers 3, 4 and 7, sash windows have been reinstated in place of previously inserted French doors. Entrances are reached up stone steps (replaced to number 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. Numbers 2 and 6 each have openings with louvres. Numbers 5, 9 and 10 have blocked windows.

Number 1 has two bays to the front, with the left-hand bay rounded and containing triple 8-pane hornless sashes in the lower storey with moulded impost band carried over the windows and apron. The middle storey has a similar but plainer square-headed window, and the upper storey has a square-headed triple 6-pane sash window. The left-hand return elevation is three bays with details similar to the front. Basement windows have railed lightwells, except the right-hand bay where the window is blocked.

Number 10 has two bays to the front, with the right-hand bay inscribed with 'Victoria Terrace' into the first-floor band. The entrance is in the three-bay return elevation, which has 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 is effectively four storeys as the ground sits at basement level. The four central bays are recessed. A balcony runs across the first floor, providing access to the upper-level apartments (numbers 12-20), reached by stone steps at either end. The basement and ground storeys have three-light and four-light steel-framed casement windows and half-glazed steel-framed doors for each two-window apartment, 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. Number 19 has an additional inserted window to the right in the upper storey.

At the right end, the projecting gable end of number 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 number 20 is in the return elevation and has a half-glazed door with an inserted window to its left.