house — Walpole Terrace

Terrace of four double-pile three-bay two-storey houses over raised basements, built 1859, having canted two-storey returns with pitched roofs to rear (west) elevation. M-profile pitched artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, proud chimney-breasts to south elevation of No. 20, and some cast-iron rainwater goods with corbelled gutter to front elevation. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front elevation, with cut granite plinth course over rendered walls to basement, render quoins, lined-and-ruled rendered walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings, one with timber sliding sash window with margin lights. Segmental-headed door openings with timber panelled doors, projecting moulded render doorcases with corbelled cornices, overlights with margin lights, flights of nosed granite steps with cast-iron railings, and cast-iron railings on cut granite plinth enclosing basement area with cast-iron pedestrian gates. Enclosed yards to rear, entrance to north of terrace with double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gates having rendered piers, rubble stone boundary wall to north site boundary. Set at junction of Castle Avenue and Kincora Avenue.