No 1

The plot at the western end of Malta Terrace was Number 1 on the feuing plan drawn up around 1818, before an of the terrace was built. The tenement here, on the corner of Malta Terrace and St Bernard’s Row, was built in the late 1860s and first occupied in 1869. While Nos. 3 to 9 were built as ‘self-contained dwellings’, No. 1 was built to have more than one apartment. Initially there were three apartments, having six, eight and nine windowed rooms, respectively. The largest of these was divided into two apartments, making four dwellings in all.

The address was No. 1 Malta Terrace until the end of the nineteenth century, when it became No. 7 St Bernard’s Row and Malta House became No. 1 Malta Terrace. The common entrance was always on St Bernard’s Row. The address of the basement apartment became 7a St Bernard’s Row.

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