Wharncliffe House

Wharncliffe House is a town house, now used as offices, built around 1885. It was originally constructed for the Earl of Wharncliffe and features a mansard roof that was added during a conversion in 1980. The building is designed in the Italianate style and is finished in painted stucco with a metal-clad roof.

The ground floor and basement are rusticated, and the building has an enriched cornice, a minor cornice, and a renewed coped parapet. It stands two storeys plus attics and a basement, with a window arrangement of five across and four down. Most windows are plain sashes.

The central bay projects and features a central window with a moulded surround, topped by a pediment on brackets and a wrought-iron railing to a dummy balcony. Above this is a smaller window with an eared architrave and a similar railing to another dummy balcony. The entrance below consists of a moulded round-arched doorcase with rusticated pilasters, an enriched keystone, and a cornice supported by enriched brackets. The door is recessed and panelled, flanked by wrought-iron gates.

On either side of the central bay, there are two plain sashes with cornices and shaped keystones. Above, there are two plain sashes with moulded eared architraves, and below, two plain sashes with voussoirs and mask keystones. The left return has four windows with similar fenestration, plus four basement windows protected by wrought-iron guards. The interior has not been inspected.