10, Church Street East

No. 10 Church Street East is a house that has been converted into a workshop and storage space. It dates from the early 18th century and is believed to have been built in 1710 for John Freeman. The building underwent alterations in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. It features a double pile design, constructed from Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings, and has a dark slate roof with brick chimneys. The structure is three storeys high with a basement and has five windows.

Architectural details include angle pilasters, floor strings that rest on keystones, and a ground-floor band. The windows are sashes with fine glazing bars, some of which have been renewed, and are set under finely rubbed flat brick arches with keystones and stone sills, which have projecting stone added. Some basement windows are blind, and others were blocked at the time of the survey. There are steps leading up to a recessed central door, although the original doorcase has been lost. The building has two steeply pitched parallel-ridge roofs with end chimneys.

At the rear, there are two first-floor sashes with broad glazing bars and a round-arched central stair window. Inside, the ground floor features a central passage with architraves around the doors, although the upper part of the right door has been removed. There is a keyed arch on pilasters leading to the stair in the rear range, and another arch to the left leading to a spine passage, with some walls removed. The entrance hall and stair have a ramped dado rail. The dog-leg stair includes winders, shallow steps with block tread-ends, stick balusters, and a mahogany handrail with a narrow, smooth early 19th-century moulding that is ramped to match the dado.

The first-floor landing has wide keyed arches on either side and leads to a lobby for the front rooms. The front right room features a chimney-piece with pilasters and a cornice, while the rear left room has a plain stone surround and an early 18th-century cast-iron grate, although the bars are missing. The architraves around the early to mid-18th-century sashes have ovolo-moulded broad glazing bars. A stair leads to the second floor from the lobby, and the rear room contains a keyhole-shaped cast-iron grate, with the bars also missing.