41, White Friars

This is a probably symmetrical town house, dating from around 1700, that has undergone alterations. It now functions as an office, and shares a redeveloped west bay with the adjacent property. The building is constructed of brown brick in an irregular English garden wall bond, with a grey slate roof running parallel to the front.

The former central bay slightly projects, featuring a partially painted flush stone quoin at its east corner. Both bays have a painted stone plinth and bevelled floor bands, partly cut flush, extending to the second and third storeys. The windows have painted stone sills and wedge lintels with cambered soffits.

The first storey has a 12-pane sash window to the east, a six-panel door within a case with a small cornice and hood, a later tripartite sash window with 4;12;4 panes, and a blocked door with two flush, two fielded, and two glazed panels, a moulded architrave, cornice, and a small hood. The second storey features a later tripartite 4;12;4 pane sash window, likely replacing two earlier sashes, alongside two 12-pane flush sashes in the former central bay. The third storey has a flush 12-pane sash and, in the central bay, a flush 12-pane sash and a replaced 12-pane recessed sash. A cast-iron rainwater pipe and head are visible, along with a plain stone coping to the parapet. A ridge chimney is located on the east side.

The cellar, possibly of medieval origin, is lined with sandstone and contains a winder stair and a door with six fielded panels. The first storey east front room includes two six-panel doors and a chamfered oak beam. The west front room of the same floor features a chamfered oak beam and a corner breast, with a blocked corner breast in the back east room. A replaced staircase is present. The second storey east front room contains a six-panel door, a panelled case surrounding a tripartite sash window, and an eared architrave to a blocked fireplace. The west front room on this level has a six-panel door, two panelled embrasures, a blocked fireplace with an eared architrave and overmantel with three looking-glass panels (some likely replaced), two probably replaced longitudinal beams, and cornices. The third storey has six-panel doors, a mid-19th century wooden fireplace in the west front room, and an eared architrave to a blocked fireplace in the east front room.