Listed Building record MDO15611 - 3 Upper Terrace Road, West Hill, Bournemouth

Part of a terrace of nine houses with attached front walls and railings, built in the 1850s or 1860s. The houses are set in handed pairs with no. 9 on its own. All are of three storeys with basement and attic, built of yellow brick, and mostly stuccoed or painted.

Terrace of 9 houses with attached front walls and railings; nos 1 and 2 now one; nos 1-5 and 8 now guest houses. Mid C19 (1850s or '60s), with some altera- tions. Yellow brick in stretcher bond, mostly stuccoed or painted. Roofs of Welsh slate or C20 tile. Red brick stacks. The houses are set in handed pairs with no 9 on its own. All are of 3 storeys with basement and attic; 2 bays. Each has steps down to basement door (C20) and small-pane sash window. Ground floors, of rusticated stucco, have paired C20 doors with overlights in archi- traves with pilasters, friezes, cornices and swept blocking courses; and large segmental-arched windows with rusticated voussoirs and tripartite sashes. 4-pane sashesto upper floors in eaved and shouldered architraves with bracketed sills, more elaborate and with cornices and pediments to 1st floor. The pairs alternately have a dentilled cornice with blocking course, or a parapet. Flat- roofed dormers with C20 windows. Ridge stacks between pairs. No 8 has mid-late C20 windows. No 4 has mid-late C20 shutters. No 9 is slightly different, having a segmental-arched voussoired doorway with a narrow sash above on each floor, and on right a 2-storey canted bay window with frieze and cornice. To front of each house is a low, stuccoed, brick wall with coping and some square piers; original cast-iron gates and railings with arrow-finialled bars survive to nos 1-3, 6-7, and in part to no 9 (which has top of wall and gate piers rebuilt).

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

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