269, WHEEL LANE

No. 269 on Wheel Lane is a late 18th-century house built from deeply coursed, dressed sandstone with a stone slate roof. The building has three storeys and three bays, along with a single-storey wing at the rear. It features a plinth and large projecting ashlar quoins. The central entrance consists of a panelled door with a four-pane overlight, framed by an architrave with consoles and a cornice. All windows have projecting sills and rusticated flat arches, with shutters on the ground floor. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows, while the outer bays on the second floor contain unequal 12-pane sashes flanking a central small-pane casement. The house has ashlar end stacks with bands and rendered return walls.