
What is recorded here
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having flat-roofed canted bay windows to front (east). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, uPVC clad eaves, cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered sills and uPVC casement windows, uPVC surrounds to first floor tripartite windows. Square-headed door opening within timber surround on tooled limestone plinths, surmounted by shallow cornice style canopy on channelled brackets. Replacement uPVC door with overlight and limestone stepped approach. Rubble stone circular-profile piers. Rendered enclosing wall to east with cast-iron railings. Square-profile piers with moulded render caps dispersed along length of wall. Three entrances having square-profile red brick gate piers with moulded render caps and rendered stepped approaches to eastern end western entrances. Red brick square-profile gate piers with platbands flanking round-headed arch with red brick voussoirs and spandrels to central entrance. Limestone capping stones to piers and arch having limestone stepped approach and partially cobbled paved surface.
Glenbrook Terrace comprises eight similarly designed houses, though curiously there is some variation in their scale. While numbers two and three are three-bay, the remaining are two-bay, though numbers one and four are more substantial than the others. The tripartite window openings and canted bay windows maximise the light and views over the sea to the east and are typical of fashionable domestic architecture in nineteenth century resorts. Though some historic fabric has been replaced, the terrace remains an eye-catching addition to the streetscape, which is enhanced by the surviving timber sliding sash windows, slate roofs, decorative render detailing and red brick entrances.
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