2 The Terrace

2 The Terrace is a Grade II* listed building constructed from tooled squared limestone, featuring hipped roofs—one covered with slate and the other three with asbestos—and four stone chimney stacks. The building has a basement and three storeys, with a window arrangement of 1-4-1. The outer bays are set back and broader, each with entrance doorways. Architectural details include a plinth, a ground floor impost band, a first-floor sill band, a cornice, and a low parapet. The upper windows are square with 6-pane sashes, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes and the ground floor features recessed arched openings, including four arched sashes and larger outer doorways. Original lead downpipes are positioned at the angles leading to the centre.

The doorways are broad and recessed within outer arches, each featuring large fanlights and doors with sidelights. Number 2 retains its original double 3-panel doors with a dentil cornice, although the fanlight has been altered. Number 3 has a blank fanlight and its door has been converted into a window. The front area is enclosed with simple diagonally-crossing iron railings, and there are garden walls on each side made of squared stone, which are coped and ramped up to the sides of the house. A garden door leads to Number 2. The side elevations have three windows, similar to the front, with a full basement to Number 2, recessed arches on the ground floor, and blank windows to the right on each main floor. The garden front mirrors these details, featuring fine oversailing steps to Number 2 from the rear door, supported by unusual cast-iron standards entwined by serpentine scrolls. Original lead downpipes are also present.

Number 3 has been converted into flats, and its interior has not been inspected. Number 2 remains largely as originally designed, with repairs made after war damage to the windows, shutters, and one ceiling on the south side. Inside, there is a half-glazed inner hall door, simple plaster cornices based on Greek mutules, and a staircase located on the west side. The interior is particularly notable for its extensive use of iron in construction, including floor beams and trimmers on each floor, with sand plugging between iron members, possibly for fire-proofing. The roof structure features four small hipped roofs supported by cast-iron tie-beam trusses with cast-iron diagonal braces and a wrought-iron central bolted tie, along with vertically-set iron battens beneath timber boarding under the roof cladding.