Number 26 And Attached Railings

Number 26 is a house, now used as offices, with area railings, built in 1797 by carpenter John Cordingley. The building is made of red brick with a slate roof and features wrought-iron railings. It has three storeys and a basement, with a facade that is three windows wide. There are steps leading up to the entrance on the left, which has a fielded-panelled door set in a wooden pilastered doorcase, topped with a fanlight and an open pediment. The windows are sash style, with stone sills and wedge lintels, and there is a continuous sill band on the first floor. The building has end stacks.

Inside, the house contains many important original features, including doors and wall panels, as well as an original staircase with a column newel, knopped column on vase balusters, and a ramped handrail. The hall and landing feature round arches with guilloche moulding and fluted and panelled jambs. Two ground-floor rooms are connected by an elliptical arch with panelled doors, and the original plaster ceilings display Adam-style motifs and dentilled cornices, along with fielded panels on the walls and a fireplace with fluted Ionic columns. A first-floor room is reputed to have panelling and a fireplace. Some of the plasterwork mouldings are likely late 19th-century restorations. Number 26 is the southernmost of a row of six similar houses shown on Heaton's plan from 1806, all possibly designed by Cordingley.