Listed Building: NOS 1 TO 9 INCLUDING BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS (1273277)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 685, 1, 168
Date assigned 14 November 1988
Date last amended

Description

TR 3241 DOVER NEW BRIDGE 1/168 Nos 1 to 9 (Consecutive) Cambridge Terrace including basement area railings GV II Terrace of 9 houses. Mid C19. Stock brick with stuccoed front and ends. Roof concealed behind parapet. Stuccoed stacks with moulded cornices and none with original crenellated yellow clay pots. Plan: 9 houses in a terrace on an obtuse corner site. The plan of each house is double depth with the principal front room to left or right of the entrance. No 6, the centre house to right of the corner has 2 front rooms and a central entrance. The ground floor of No 1 at the right hand end is used as a restaurant and the others are offices. Exterior: 4 storeys and basement. Long 20-window range on obtuse corner site. 2:2:2:1:3:2:2:2:2:2 bays, the one window bay is on the curved corner and the 3-window bay to its right is a double fronted house but uniform with the others. Parquet with a heavy moulded cornice, panelled frieze at third floor sill level, string at second floor sill level and ornate cast-iron balcony across first floor. The ground floor is rusticated and has rusticated canted bay windows and Tuscan porches to the doorways with C19 panelled doors and rectangular overlights. The first floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices on brackets. The second floor windows have segmented heads and eaved architraves. The third floor windows are round-headed in moulded architraves. The ground floor bays continue down into the basement. Most of the windows appear to be the original 4-pane sashes. Including original ornate heavy cast-iron basement area railings and stuccoed piers. Similar symmetrical 5-bay right hand (north) return. The rear elevation is largely unaltered and most of the houses have small back porches with moulded stucco cornices, ornate cast-iron balconies to ground floor garden windows which have their original casements with glazing bars. Most of the other rear windows are also original. Interior not inspected but expected to retain original features including staircases and other joinery, chimneypieces and plasterwork etc. Listing NGR: TR3202141206

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3202 4120 (point)
Map sheet TR34SW

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 11:07AM