73, Church Street

No. 73 Church Street is a house, now used as offices, dating from around 1700 and altered in the early 19th century. It features painted roughcast over sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with a doorway and a rear wing to the right, along with a gable chimney stack on the right side. It stands three storeys above cellars and has four bays, with a low plinth and a strongly projecting eaves cornice supported by plain timber brackets. The doorway, located in the fourth bay, is highlighted by a prominent cornice on pilasters and a door with 12 raised and fielded panels. All windows are sashed with glazing bars, featuring 16 panes on the ground and first floors and 12 panes on the second floor, with painted stone rebated and chamfered jambs and heads. The rear elevation includes an early 19th-century two-storey ashlar bow with two tall (15-pane) sashed windows on each floor. Inside, there are two staircases: a dogleg staircase from the rear of the hallway with an open string and stick balusters, and a spiral staircase from the front room. The interior also features doorways with moulded wooden architraves, shutters at the ground-floor front windows, and the drawing room at the back contains an early 19th-century fireplace adorned with carved palmettes.