Number 41 And Attached Railings

Number 41 is a house, now used as offices, with basement railings. It was built in 1796 and altered in the 19th century for Thomas Bolland. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has a slate roof, along with wrought-iron railings. It has two storeys, a basement, and an attic, featuring five bays, with the central three bays slightly projecting and topped with a pediment. There are steps leading up to a central panelled door that has a fanlight, all set within a stone surround with three-quarter Tuscan columns, an entablature, a cornice, and a pediment. The flanking windows and first-floor plate-glass sashes have stone sills and rubbed-brick flat arches, with a sill band at the centre of the first floor. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and there is an oval window in the tympanum, along with end stacks.

Inside, Nos 40-44 are now part of a single office complex with interconnecting doors. The contemporary rooms feature panelled walls and fireplaces, and there is an open-well staircase with a knopped column on vase balusters, likely with later square-section newels topped with segmental pedimented finials that rise to the second storey. This building was part of the development of the Wilson estate, which included houses and cloth finishing workshops for wealthy merchants seeking to move away from the congested medieval centre. Thomas Bolland was an attorney and clerk to the lieutenancy meetings, and in 1826, Christopher Bolland was a solicitor at this address. The railings have vase finials on the standards and knobbed finials on the bars.