Number 23 And Attached Garden Wall And Outbuilding

This is a substantial house with an attached garden wall and outbuilding, dating from circa 1779, with later 19th-century and early 20th-century alterations. The house was originally a residence, later used as offices.

The front of the house is of red brick in Flemish bond, set on a painted stone plinth. The right return is of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond, the rear of orange-brown brick in stretcher bond, and one wing is of red-brown brick in English garden-wall bond. Timber features include a doorcase and cornice. The roofs are of plain tile and pantile, with stone coped gables, brick kneelers and brick stacks. The carriage house is built of orange-grey brick in English bond, whitewashed at the rear, with a slate roof and brick stacks. The garden wall is of orange-brown brick in stretcher bond with moulded stone coping.

The house has a three-storey, four-bay front. A prominent doorcase features fluted Corinthian pilasters, a dentilled open pediment enriched with composition mouldings, and a panelled reveal. Steps lead to a six-panel door with a radial fanlight featuring moulded glazing bars, recessed within a fluted round-arched architrave with an impost band of incised flutes and flowers. There are three twelve-pane sash windows with fielded panel shutters to the right of the door; similar, taller windows without shutters on the first floor; and unequal nine-pane sashes on the second floor. Ground and first floor windows have painted stone sill bands, while those on the second floor have painted stone sills. All windows are topped with flat arches of orange gauged brick. Broad bands of painted stone run across the first and second floors. A dentil and modillion moulded cornice incorporates an inverted bell rainwater head dated 1780. A torch extinguisher is fixed to the left of the door. The rear of the house presents two gabled fronts, the right one projecting. Visible windows are twelve-pane sashes with flat brick arches. Attic windows are semicircular with brick arches; the left is a lunette, and the right has a four-pane fixed light in a partly blocked opening. The rear elevations have three-course raised brick bands to all floors.

The garden wall is approximately 1.75 metres high, ramped up to the rear of the house, and extends around six metres to the south-west. The outbuilding is two storeys and an attic with three unequal bays, one with a gabled half dormer with a finial. The carriage house entrance has a flat arch of gauged brick, altered to include tall windows with square leaded lights. First floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The dormer has a three-light window with a transom.

The interior of the house contains a full-height geometric staircase, characterized by slender turned balusters, a serpentine handrail, wreathed at the foot around a turned newel, and a shaped curtail step.