5 Darmond's Green

This is one half of a pair of semi-detached houses, built in the early 19th century. The house is constructed of local red sandstone, which has been painted, with rendered elevations, and has a slate roof with red sandstone copings to the gable. It features red sandstone ridge stacks and has a basement and two storeys.

The house follows a double-pile plan, meaning that rooms are arranged along two parallel lines. On the ground floor, a central hallway leads to two rooms on each side, with a staircase to the centre rear. The first floor has a similar arrangement, with rooms around a central landing.

The front (east) elevation has a painted sandstone facade with three bays. The main entrance is off-centre and contains an original raised and fielded six-panel door with a slender four-light overlight. All windows are original; the ground floor has eight-over-eight sash windows and the first floor has four-over-eight sashes. All windows have painted sills, and the ground floor windows also have painted wedge lintels. The side and rear elevations are rendered and painted. The north gable end is largely blank, with a later single-storey timber lean-to attached to the front. The original side doorway is contained within the lean-to and retains its wedge lintel.

The rear (west) elevation also has original multipaned sash and fixed-pane windows matching those at the front. A small, slender fixed-pane window is located in the left bay of the ground floor, and an eight-over-eight sash window is in the right bay. The first floor outer bays have four-over-eight sash windows flanking a small fixed-pane stair window. Due to the sloping ground level, there is a partly sunken basement doorway with a plank and batten door incorporating a later glazed upper panel, accessed by a flight of stone steps. A tiny window originally lit an internal basement stair, which has since been removed.

Internally, the house retains simple door architraves, floorboards, and some stone flag floors to the ground floor. Original 19th-century four-panel doors remain, along with a probable late 19th-century timber fire surround with tiled cheeks in the front left ground-floor room. A rear archway accesses a timber staircase with a plain wall string and a replaced handrail. The original internal basement stair has been removed, and basement access is now only from the exterior. The basement, which lies underneath the rear half of the building, has whitewashed walls and a chimneybreast but no visible fireplace opening. There is unconfirmed speculation that some ceiling timbers may be from ships.