White stucco Regency terraces curve around two garden squares above the sea, where ITV's Grace keeps its detective's house on Eaton Place.
What Kemp Town looks like
and curve around two private garden squares above the sea, a continuous run of white stuccoed terraces three storeys tall. The west side of the square has Doric and Tuscan columned entrance porches. Every third house on the east side projects forward under large Composite pilasters, the same pattern repeated by six houses on the north side under the giant order. Cast iron balconies run along the second floor the length of each block, and the facades were complete by 1828.
continues the run toward the sea, a central block of five houses with Corinthian columns between plainer houses on either side, its fronts rising straight from a brick retaining wall above the lower promenade. Behind the terraces, the are the private communal gardens shared by the 105 houses that make up the estate. , a few streets toward the town centre, is the same stuccoed Regency run at a smaller scale.
A few streets inland, keeps the same pale stucco and cast iron balconies on a quieter residential street, a few paces from Marine Parade. St George's Road runs the shopfronts of the wider district, white render and red brick above the awnings, with a bus route down the middle of the street.
Further inland, the streets mix a Victorian corner pub with tall chimney pots and a Gothic chapel behind a flint stone wall, part of the former St Joseph's Convent on Bristol Road. The former Pelham Institute on Upper Bedford Street is a Grade II listed Victorian block in red brick and terracotta, built in 1877 as a working men's club and now converted to flats. Nearby, the mews at St Johns Mews is a row of former stables. Two storeys of grey render sit behind a black iron gate, and the building is Grade II listed.
Shot in Kemp Town
Kemp Town's Regency terraces mostly play themselves on screen rather than standing in for somewhere else. ITV's Grace keeps its lead detective's house on Eaton Place. Channel 4's Killer Net used number eight Eastern Terrace as student lodgings two decades earlier.
Grace, 2021 to present
Eaton Place
Eaton Place, a few streets back from Marine Parade, is where ITV's Grace keeps its lead detective's house for the series. The street has the same pale stucco and cast iron balconies as the rest of Kemp Town, a few blocks short of the main squares. Street View
Giant porches and continuous cornice lines over white stuccoed terraces give Eaton Square the same grandeur as Kemp Town, both laid out by the builder Thomas Cubitt. Cast iron balconies run along the fronts the same way, just at a larger scale. Eaton Square's porches and window surrounds run heavier than Kemp Town's, and its traffic needs clearing from a period frame. Try searching giant porches cast iron balconies now.
Lansdown in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
White stuccoed facades and columned porches along broad streets give Cheltenham's Lansdown terraces the same Regency scale as Kemp Town, built in the same 1820s and 1830s decades. The crescents there share the same scale of house and the same continuous roofline. Lansdown sits well inland, so wider verges, more mature planting and the absence of any sea view are what give it away. Try searching white stuccoed facades columned porches now.
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