House And Wall Adjacent To Masterman Place Arch

This building, originally a reading room, is now a house and was constructed in 1854 for the London Lead Company. It features coursed squared sandstone with painted tooled ashlar dressings and a roof made of graduated stone flags. The house is a single storey with three bays and has a right-side pent extension. The central entrance is a 20th-century glazed door set in a tooled stone surround, which is topped by a stone-bracketed ridged hood. On either side of the door are sash windows with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills. The left side of the building has two narrow sash windows in a similar style.

At the left rear, a rubble sandstone wall connects to an arch and has round coping. The right side of the house features a flat-coped extension with 20th-century openings that are not of special interest.