24 Baron Street

House and workshop, early 19th century (constructed between 1824 and 1831).

Built of red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs.

The house is a stubby L-shaped structure of two storeys and a cellar. The workshop range to the rear is rectangular and single-storeyed, possibly with a lower ground floor or basement due to the slope of the land.

The two-storerey house is built of red brick in English garden wall bond (5:1) with a hipped slate roof to the street and a gable to the rear. The front, north-east elevation has an off-centre doorway with a window to each side, the left-hand window closer to the doorway, and two first-floor windows above the ground-floor windows. The narrow doorframe has a plain stone architrave and a shallow canopy; the door is a modern replacement. The vertical rectangular windows have stone sills and stone wedge lintels. The left-hand first-floor window has a timber fixed frame, probably replacing a sash frame; the other three windows are currently boarded up.

The south-east side elevation is close to, but not touching, the adjacent building.

The ground slopes down to the right (north-west side) of the house. The north-west side elevation has a single window on both ground and first floors, placed right of centre. The vertical rectangular windows have stone sills and wedge lintels and are currently boarded up. There are two blocked cellar windows with stone lintels and to the right is a doorway with a plain stone architrave. A rowlock course of bricks above the lintel suggests this is a later insertion.

To the rear, the rendered gable wall is visible only above the single-storey workshop. To the right (south-east side) of the projecting gable the building is recessed with a small yard, which is not visible.

The workshop range is aligned north-west to south-east and built of red brick mostly in English garden wall bond (5:1), with a double-pitched slate roof. The north-east elevation partially abuts the rear gable wall of the house and wraps slightly round the rear west corner. To the right is one large opening with a stone sill, currently boarded up. This appears to be an enlargement of an earlier, smaller opening; the shorter stone lintel beneath another brick rowlock course relates to this earlier phase.

The north-west gable wall has two bricked-up windows with timber lintels at a lower level, with two ground-floor windows also with timber lintels. The left-hand window has a timber frame with three-over-three panes. The right-hand window is taller, with a timber frame of two vertical panes.

The brickwork of the rear, south-west long elevation is much disturbed, either by subsidence, rebuilding, or the demolition of two return ranges that projected to the south-west. At the centre of the elevation is a bricked-up ground-floor window with a stone lintel; just below is an opening with a timber lintel and a short brick buttress to the right.

The interior was not inspected.