38, North Bailey

No. 38 North Bailey is a house, now serving as a University department, dating from around 1700 with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick in varying bonds, featuring ashlar quoins and painted ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys topped with ashlar copings. The house is three storeys high and has three windows on the front facade.

The entrance features a six-panel door with a three-paned overlight set in an architrave between the second and third windows. The ground floor sashes have header-course lintels and projecting stone sills, while the first floor has flat brick arches and wrought iron balconies for three French windows, all with glazing bars. The second floor sashes also have header-course lintels and glazing bars. To the left of the door, there are three blocked windows with header-course lintels, and five blocked first floor windows with ashlar lintels. The building has two brick bands at floor level. The steeply-pitched roof includes end chimneys and a boot-scraper recess beside the door. At the rear, there are oeuils-de-boeuf windows on two floors.

Inside, the property features a panelled dado in the open well of the closed-string staircase, with a handrail that has deep panelled sides and a flat top, along with fat barley-sugar twist balusters and a secondary balustrade in front of the rear window. Throughout the house, there are two-panelled doors and thin beaded architraves on the top floor.