22, 23 AND 23A, SOUTH PARADE

This is a late 18th-century house, now used as a club and offices, located on the south side of South Parade in Doncaster. The building is stuccoed with painted stone dressings and has a concrete tile roof. It is constructed around a central hallway plan with a rear staircase hall.

The house is three storeys high, with a basement beneath the two bays to the left. It has seven bays, the three central bays projecting slightly and featuring rusticated quoins to the ground floor, giant Ionic pilasters rising to the first and second floors (paired together at the corners), and a moulded pediment. A plinth runs along the base. Steps lead to a semi-circular headed doorcase containing a six-panelled door with a traceried fanlight, all set within a moulded architrave. A Tuscan porch with pilasters flanks the door, and there is a plain frieze and modillioned cornice above. Either side of the entrance are twelve-pane sash windows.

The first floor has a wide sill band and seven full-height sash windows with fifteen panes each, with segmental ironwork balconies to the front, except over the porch where a square balcony is present. The second floor has three six-pane sashes and four plate glass sashes, all in original openings. All ground and second-floor windows have projecting sills. A moulded cornice sits above the side bays, while a plain frieze is above the pilasters and a moulded pediment tops the central bays. The roof is hipped to the right and has rendered ridge stacks.

The right return elevation contains a panelled door with a traceried overlight on the ground floor, and blind first and second-floor openings.

The interior of No. 22 features a moulded arch leading to the rear staircase hall, which has a cantilevered stone staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail and alternating plain and interlaced panel cast iron balusters. The ground floor on the left-hand side includes a room with a good acanthus leaf and vine cornice, reeded dado panelling, and an elliptical arch leading to the rear room, featuring fan motifs in the spandrels. A central first-floor room has a reeded cornice and a bowed end, and the room to the left of the staircase has a distyle in antis entrance. Panelled doors are set in panelled reveals throughout the rest of the interior.