Constantine House

Constantine House is a house, now used as a hostel, built around 1840. It may have been designed by G T Andrews. The front of the house is constructed of mottled brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the rear is brick in an English garden wall bond. It has a painted stone porch, a timber eaves band and cornice, and a shallow-pitched slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a central entrance hall plan and incorporates a basement and three storeys, with an attic to the central bay which slightly projects forward.

The porch has antae with moulded imposts and an entablature with a bold cornice, lit by tall round-headed windows with frosted glass upper lights. The double panelled doors are set within a panelled reveal and have a margin-glazed overlight. The first and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and flat brick arches, although a 20th-century replacement window exists in the centre of the second floor. The attic window is an unequal 9-pane sash with a cambered head and arch, and a painted stone sill. An eaves band with bracketed modillion cornice runs along the building and is returned at each end.

The rear of the house features a basement, three storeys, and an attic, with a two-story canted bay on the right side. A panelled and margin-glazed door is centrally located and accessed by a flight of steps with stick balusters and a shaped handrail. A single unequal 15-pane sash is on the ground floor of the canted bay, with 12-pane sashes elsewhere.

Inside, the ground floor features a cantilevered staircase which rises from the ground to the second floor around an oval well. It possesses shaped treadends, turned bobbin balusters, a serpentine moulded handrail, and is wreathed at the foot around a turned newel on a shaped curtail step. The entrance hall has reeded doorcases with angle roundels, panelled doors, a moulded cornice, and a ceiling rose. The front room to the right has panelled window shutters and a moulded cornice. The rear room to the left has a reeded doorcase with angle rosettes, a garden window in a reeded architrave with angle roundels and panelled reveals with shutters, and other window architraves with similar detailing but without shutters. A plain marble fireplace has pilaster jambs, moulded imposts and a mantelshelf.

The first floor landing has reeded doorcases with angle rosettes and some original six-panel doors. A partitioned room to the left has a marble fireplace with pilasters, moulded imposts, a moulded cornice shelf on consoles carved with vine and grape ornament, reeded window surrounds with plain paterae, panelled sections beneath the windows, a moulded cornice, and a ceiling rose. The front room to the right has a plain fireplace and moulded cornice. The rear room to the right contains a reeded doorcase with angle rosettes, a moulded cornice, and a ceiling rose. The second floor retains plain fireplaces and moulded cornices in the main rooms. The attic contains a plain fireplace in each main room. Parts of two queen post trusses are visible within the roof.