51c New Briggate

Former town house, later a boarding school and club, now a restaurant and shop. Built between 1710 and 1720. C19 to C21 alterations. Late Georgian style.

MATERIALS: brick, rendered and incised with vermiculated rusticated quoins and plain ashlar with painted stone dressings. Graded stone slate roof

PLAN: square on plan.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys with a basement, and has a half-hipped, half-gabled roof with off-set southern end stacks.

The front elevation is five bays with the three central bays slightly breaking forward, an ashlar-incised rendered plinth, vermiculated rendered blocks to each floor, a painted stone band between ground and first floors, moulded stone cornice between first and second floors and a modillion eaves cornice. The central door surround has plain pilaster jambs with Doric moulded plinths and capitals supporting an entablature with triglyphs and a moulded cornice. The doorway has moulded jambs, a lowered door sill and a large two-light early-C20 top-light over a late-C20 door. Flanking the door are two windows to each side, with a narrow subsidiary door close to the left-hand corner. All have stone moulded quoin jambs (painted), with a stone lintel to the subsidiary door and stone sills and deep lintels to the windows on which the stone band rests. The upper floors both have five windows with similar stone moulded quoin jambs, sills and lintels, the windows shorter on the second floor. The windows have one-over-one pane sashes, with some one-over-one pane fixed frames on the ground floor, those on the first floor with early-C20 diamond leaded glazing.

The east elevation has ashlar incised render.

INTERIOR: reputed to contain original plaster ceilings at first floor with balustraded stair.