Georgian Houses Wilberforce House Museum

The Wilberforce House Museum incorporates two Georgian houses, built around 1760 and restored around 1945, before being integrated into the museum in 1956. They were constructed for James Hamilton, a tar merchant. The houses are of brick construction with painted ashlar dressings and pantile roofs, featuring two side wall stacks. Architectural details include a plinth, ground floor and first-floor sill bands, and a coped parapet. The houses are three storeys high, with a six-window facade featuring twelve-pane sashes, brick flat arches above, and keystones. Further six nine-pane sashes are positioned above. The central doorway is framed by an ashlar doorcase with three Roman Ionic half-columns, a pulvinated frieze, a dentillated cornice, and a pediment. The entrance features fielded six-panel doors, flanked by two dummy windows.

Inside, the central entrance hall is divided by fluted Ionic plaster columns, featuring a fielded panelled dado and enriched cornices. Two fielded six-panel doors are present. Round-arched openings lead to stairwells containing a dogleg staircase with vase and stem balusters and a ramped scrolled handrail. A Venetian window is located on the landing. Front rooms on the first floor have enriched dentillated cornices and fireplaces flanked by round-headed recesses.