Esplanade House Terrace

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THE STRAND 1. 1577 (North Side) Nos 17 to 20 (consec) (Esplanade House Terrace) SZ 5992 3/329

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2. Circa 1840. Terrace of four houses treated as one composition. Three storeys, basement and attic stucco faced. Rusticated ground floors, bands between storeys, frieze. Nos 17 and 20 break forward flanked by pilaster on their first and second floors. They have low pitched hipped slate roofs with over- hanging eaves. Nos 18 and 19 have mansard slate roof, largely concealed by a panelled parapet and cornice. One attic window each on Nos 17 and 20 placed in frieze and breaking up through eaves, and on Nos 18 and 19 they have a panel of turned balusters set in the parapet in front of them. Blind windows to centre of composition. Two windows per house, recessed, sash, glazing bars intact, block sills. The ground floor windows are rounded headed. Later addition of a stuccoed canted bay of three windows to No 20 on the basement and ground floor. Nos 17 and 20 have entrance bays to side, flat roofed with parapet. Single storey to No 17, two storeys No 20. Modern door in No 17 but retains semi-circular fanlight. On No 20 the door is set back in porch flanked by pilasters with moulded arch over; recessed door of four moulded panels, rec- tangular fanlight over, Nos 18 and 19 have projecting rectangular entrance bays, possibly later in date, stuccoed with banded rustication, course and parapet over. They have recessed panelled doors with semi-circular fanlights, round headed recessed side windows. On No 19 however, the bay has been carried up to the second floor with two windows. Each door has a flight of steps with rendered parapets and capped piers. North Esplanade front: similar arrangement but with certain differences in fenestration. Nos 18 and 19 have two attic windows each this side with balustraded panels in front. Second floor of Nos 17 and 20: two narrow round headed windows. On the first floor large four light casements, French window to centre, set in architrave surround, pediments on brackets over. No 17 has a good anthemion cast iron balcony. First floor windows of Nos 18 and 19 are round headed, recessed, sash, block sills, giving onto a common anthemion and intruvian scroll balcony on brackets. The ground floor of No 20 has a bay of three windows as on Strand front with a Victorian ornate cast iron balcony and steps with balustrade down to garden. No 17 has a late C19 rectangular bay of three lights to front, two to side. The basement projects in front of bay as it does to Nos 18 and 19 which have French windows on ground floor. Along this terrace is a fine iron balcony with lattice and scroll work to oval panels, the same iron work flanking steps down from each house to garden.

Nos 1 to 7 (consec) and Nos 9 to 20 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5991892678

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