17, Westgate

This is a mid- to late 18th-century house with alterations and an extension dating to the later 18th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern to the earlier section, and has a pantile roof. The building is arranged with a two-room, central entrance-hall plan, and a two-room extension to the right. The symmetrical entrance front, on the left side, has two steps leading to a six-fielded-panel door, which sits beneath a cornice and overlight, all contained within an architrave and stucco flat arch. There are four-pane sashes in 18th-century flush wooden architraves with sills and stucco flat arches; smaller sashes are present on the ground and first floors of the right-hand bay. A plain 20th-century wooden eaves board is visible. A rendered gable features a rebuilt end stack dating from the 19th to 20th centuries on the left, and an axial stack on the right.

The interior entrance hall has a round-arched doorway to the right, featuring an archivolt and a two-fold panelled door. A staircase has a closed string, corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters with round knops, plain newels with profile balusters and pendant drops. The small rooms behind the staircase have ovolo-chamfered beams. On the ground floor, to the right, there’s a rounded alcove with fluted pilasters, a keyed archivolt, and a fielded-panel door. A fielded-panelled wall in the bedroom on the first floor, to the left, has a wooden chimney-piece with an architrave, a plain frieze, a dentilled cornice, a panelled overmantel, and flanking four-panel doors with H-hinges in architraves.