Banner House

Banner House is a house and store, dating to around 1800, originally built for the Sergeant family and with earlier origins. It was formerly part of the nearby priory. The building is constructed of orange brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with orange brick used for the window arches and gable ends. The roof is covered in pantiles. The house has a double-depth plan with a central entrance hall spanning two rooms. It is three storeys high and has three irregular bays.

The entrance, located slightly to the left of the centre, features original wooden architraves with a low hood over a 20th-century door, which sits beneath a three-pane overlight. Windows to either side have 12-pane casements fitted into the original openings, each with a cambered, rubbed-brick arch and stone sills. First-floor windows are similar, with 12-pane glazing in openings featuring segmental header brick arches and stone sills. A low second floor has small hatches, each with a pair of board doors with strap hinges within flush frames and stone sills. The eaves are stepped with a wooden gutter supported by paired modillion brackets. The right gable has tumbled-in brickwork. There are end stacks.

The right return wall, incorporating part of the earlier gable end of a building on the left (street-facing) side, has a small 20th-century 12-pane window on the ground floor and an original board door beneath a segmental arch on the second floor.

At the rear, adjoining the priory, there is an angled corner with a jettied section at second-floor level. The interior of the ground floor front and rear right rooms contain moulded dado rails, panelled cupboard doors, and six-panel doors in architraves. There are open-well staircases with plain balusters, a grip handrail, and slender turned newels. A unique feature is the roof, consisting of seven bays with collared rafters; the lower part of each principal rafter is supported by a post connected by a short horizontal brace to the rafter foot, and further braced with a raking strut to the floor joist. Construction employs pegged mortise and tenon joints, with additional wrought iron straps to the raking struts. Recent renovations on the ground floor revealed traces of painted decoration beneath the wallpaper, including stencilled floral patterns in the rear room, painted floral murals in the front room, and blockwork in the hall. Originally part of the same property as the priory, this range was added shortly after the main house was built.