The Slack

The Slack is a house built in the late 18th century, constructed from ashlar stone with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-bay symmetrical facade featuring rusticated quoins, a dentil eaves cornice, and coped gables with chimney stacks. The doorway is framed with an architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment. On either side of the door are tripartite sash windows with plain stone surrounds and slightly projecting sills on each floor. Above the door, there is a single light window. The left side of the building has a watershot return wall with a Venetian window that features an impost and an expressed keystone at the apex of the gable. Below this window, there is an added two-storey gabled porch that displays a heraldic coat of arms in relief above the doorway. At the rear, there is a tall stair window, a tripartite window to the left, and a three-light flat-faced mullioned window on each floor to the right. Inside, there is a cantilevered stone staircase with a decorative cast iron balustrade that matches the design found in Lacy House on Underbank Avenue, Blackshaw, which dates to 1793. Two rooms feature decorative plaster cornices and marble fireplaces.