Gabriela, Bulkeley Terrace

Gabriela, Bulkeley Terrace

A late-Georgian style terrace of four 3-storey, 3-bay houses at 4-8 Bulkeley Terrace and one house at 1 Raglan Street. The buildings are mostly pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered architraves, sill and head bands, except No 4 which is scribed roughcast painted cream. The slate roof is hipped to the left over No 8, with added skylights and brick and roughcast ridge stacks and two stacks at the left end.

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

No 4 has its entrance to the right, with a recessed panelled door and overlight. The windows have surrounds with stopped chamfers, and in the lower storey the top row of panes has been replaced by a single pane. No 5 has a 20th-century shop front framed by Tuscan pilasters with a fascia bearing a modern sign and moulded cornice. A replaced panelled door is to the left, with a small-pane window at centre and another small-pane window to the right, probably positioned where another doorway formerly stood. No 6 has its entrance in the right-hand bay with a fielded-panel door and overlight in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers. The 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 has a shop front (Gabriela) in the lower storey. It presents a plain shop window to Castle Street framed by simple pilasters with fascia (bearing an added modern sign) and moulded cornice. The entrance lies in the splayed corner under a hood mould with a replacement half-glazed door. The main angle of the building is deeply chamfered at the middle storey. The left side wall to Raglan Street has a similar shop window, with a further left a half-glazed door under a round-headed overlight (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 elevations vary in detail but share the same basic 3-bay structure with 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, and has a fielded-panel door to the left under a round-headed overlight. No 7 is also pebble-dashed with smooth-rendered keyed architraves in lower and middle storeys and plain architraves in the upper storey. Its 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 on the left side is in a painted freestone surround with stopped chamfers and moulded cornice on consoles, with a circa 1900 half-glazed door and overlight. No 5 is rendered with moulded architraves to lower and middle storeys and a middle-storey sill band, with three ground-floor windows (the narrower left-hand window formerly a doorway) and replacement horned sashes. No 4 is also rendered with moulded architraves and pediments on consoles to the lower and middle-storey windows. Its 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.