Georgian House

This Georgian house, now used as shops and offices, dates from the mid-18th century and has early 19th-century alterations along with some minor later changes. The building is constructed of stucco with painted stone dressings and features a tarred slate roof. It has five bays and three storeys, arranged around a central entrance hall with two rooms on either side. The tall ground floor showcases horizontal banded rustication and a deep plinth. Access is via four steps leading up to a central door, flanked by plain wreathed railings. The door is a 20th-century glazed design beneath a six-pane overlight and is set within a Tuscan porch that has a plain frieze and a wide moulded cornice.

On either side of the entrance, there are large recessed 20th-century small pane tripartite bow windows set on bowed plinths. A wide plain sill band runs across the first floor, which features five full-height first-floor 18-pane sash windows, accompanied by a full-width bracketed iron balcony. This balcony has a Greek key frieze at the base, a scrolled frieze at the top, and honeysuckle and interlace panels in between, stepping forward at the centre above the porch. Above, there are five smaller six-pane sash windows with projecting sills. The building is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course, with stone-coped gables on moulded stone kneelers, original hopper heads below, and large brick end stacks.

Inside, the narrow central hall has a bracketed cornice with an egg and dart design. There is a moulded round arch leading to the rear staircase hall, which features a fine open well staircase spanning three floors. The staircase has two square knopped columns on vase balusters per tread, a moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, and profiled cheekpieces. A round-arched window lights the staircase landing, which also has a bracketed egg and dart cornice at the top landing. The ground and first-floor rooms are adorned with dentilled and egg and dart cornices.