5 The Terrace

5 The Terrace is a pair of houses built around 1877 for the Constructor and Chief Engineer of the Royal Dockyard. The site was originally planned in 1820, but these houses were designed differently. They are constructed from rockfaced grey limestone with slate hipped roofs and feature a three-storey front with six windows, along with full-height porch projections on each end wall. The buildings have a moulded cornice and parapet, and corniced stone stacks.

The design is loosely related to the 1817 design of Nos 2 and 3 but features taller Victorian proportions and heavier detailing. Notable architectural elements include an ashlar plinth, a ground-floor impost band, a platband, a cornice, and coping. The houses have ashlar rusticated angle quoins, a channelled pier between them, and surrounds to the openings.

The windows consist of 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor has arched windows with rusticated surrounds that extend down to the plinth, while the first floor features plain flush surrounds with sill-brackets, and the second floor has cambered-headed flush surrounds with sill-brackets. The end walls have similar three-window elevations with blank openings on either side of the projecting porch bay, which has matching windows on the north and end elevations. The end elevation includes a ground floor arched doorway, which is blocked on No 4, and double doors leading to No 5. The rear of the houses is similar in design, featuring a deep basement and plainer rock-faced stone walls.