Southernhay (also known as Southernhay Gardens)

In Southernhay West, the even and restrained three-storied red brick terraces following the line of the city ditch, were designed by Matthew Nosworthy in 1789, his first recorded work in Exeter. It is very much in the tradition of London work of the 1770s: blank arcading framing the round-headed ground-floor windows, white string courses, doorways with Coade stone surrounds and faces in the keystones.

Numbers 1-1a were well restored when converted to offices in 1975-7. Behind is a landscaped walk alongside the city wall. Opposite, in Southernhay East, development began a little earlier, with the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in 1747 and some individual late-18th century houses. Examples include numbers 27-28 with good door-cases, between others of the early-19th century, for example number 36, with a Roman Doric portico. To the north is a stucco terrace of around 1820 with a one-storeyed Greek Doric colonnade of twenty-one bays and three pediments.