39, North Bailey

39 North Bailey is a house that has been converted into a university department. It dates from the early 18th century and is built of English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings. The building has three storeys and three bays. The central entrance features a six-panel door set within an architrave, topped by a patterned fanlight and a bracketed open pediment. The windows are renewed sash types with glazing bars, and the second floor has header-course lintels. There are three brick bands at floor levels and a dog-tooth eaves cornice. No chimneys are visible, and there is a plain brick boot-scraper recess beside the door. Inside, there is an inserted open-well closed-string staircase with varied balusters; the lower floors feature two turned balusters alternating with two barley-sugar twists, and the square newels have pendants and pyramidal tops.