13, Abbey Street

No. 13 Abbey Street is a town house dating from around 1720, with later additions and alterations. It is built of brown brick in Flemish bond and has grey slate roofs. The main block is three stories high and has two windows, while there is a two-story extension to the west that also has two windows, likely added in the late 18th century.

The main block features a painted stone plinth and rusticated quoins at the southwest corner on the first and second stories. The entrance door has six fielded panels and is topped by a pedimented hood supported by consoles. To the west of the door is a flush 12-pane sash window, and to the east is a replaced horned 16-pane sash. There is a painted floorband on the second story, with two 16-pane sashes located to the east. The third story has a painted floorband, two square 6-pane sashes, and a brick parapet with plain stone coping. The windows have painted stone sills and gauged brick heads.

The west wing has a low painted stone plinth and features flush sashes, with two 12-pane sashes on the raised first story and two 6-pane sashes on the second story. The rear of the main block has flush quoins at the northwest corner, a replaced tripartite sash window on the first story, and a Gothick tripartite sash on the second story with intersecting tracery glazing bars. The third story has a replaced 9-pane sash, and the rear has a parapet gable. The rear of the west wing is irregular, with a back doorway, a central one-story outshut, and a two-story rear wing to the east that includes a 16-pane sash and a rear chimney.

Inside, there is an oak cellar door with two fielded panels, doors with four fielded panels, and shutters in the embrasures. The interior also features a fine early 18th-century open-well open-string staircase with shaped brackets, three turned balusters per step, and a heavy oak rail with a rose design.