27, Queen Street

No. 27 Queen Street is a house, now part of another house, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some later minor alterations. It is constructed of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed at the front and rendered on the gables, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan featuring two rooms with an entrance hall to the left and a small outshut at the rear left. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has five bays.

The entrance features a stone step with a moulded nosing leading to a six-fielded-panel door, topped by a three-pane overlight in an original beaded frame, supported by ornate carved foliate brackets that hold a corniced hood. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows, with the left pair retaining original early to mid-18th century thick glazing bars, all set beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. A three-course brick band runs along the first floor, with the upper two courses projecting. The first-floor windows are similar, positioned beneath shallower flat arches.

The building has a late 19th to early 20th century modillioned cornice below the original coved plaster eaves cornice and a 19th century bracketed gutter. The gables are raised, and the end stacks are truncated with unsympathetic 20th century rendering. The ridge stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century with a rendered lower section.

Inside, there is a good open-well staircase featuring a ramped corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, column newel posts, and profiled cheek-pieces. The ground-floor front rooms include moulded dado rails, spine beams, and moulded cornices on the ceilings, along with fielded-panel window shutters and two- and four-fielded-panel doors in architraves. The lower two-storey section to the left, marked as No. 25, is now part of the house but is not of special interest.