Numbers 83 To 93 And Attached Railings

Two houses, now an institute, were built around 1782 and attributed to the architect Charles Mountain senior, with alterations made in the middle of the 19th century. The buildings are constructed of brick with painted ashlar dressings, a stucco basement, and hipped slate roofs featuring four side wall stacks, two of which have ashlar coping. They present a two and three-storey appearance, plus a basement, with a five-window range each, featuring painted brick flat arches. Number 89, on the left, has a rusticated basement, ground and first-floor sill bands, a first-floor band, a moulded dentillated eaves cornice, and a moulded coped parapet with corner pedestals. A projecting central three-window section is topped by a dentillated pediment. Steps lead to a central Corinthian portico containing a 19th-century fielded four-panel door and a plain fanlight. The basement windows are glazing-bar sashes. The rear elevation features two two-storey canted bay windows with 12-pane sashes, and a Venetian window between them. Number 93, on the right, has similar detailing and 6-pane sashes to the second floor. Steps lead to a central portico with columns and enriched capitals, a fielded panelled double door, and a plain fanlight; the basement has four glazing-bar sashes. Outside each house, wrought-iron spearhead railings are present to the steps and area, set upon an ashlar plinth.