Grosvenor House With Terrace Walls

This is a mid-19th century house, later converted to offices and restored around 1993, with accompanying terrace walls. The house is built of ashlar with a slate hipped roof. It is two storeys with a basement, and features three windows facing the street. The design is Classical in style, incorporating Greek motifs.

The front of the house features a central rusticated doorway with a porch, supported by fluted columns with carved scrolls and acanthus to the capitals. The windows are tall casements, currently boarded, set within moulded and rusticated architraves, topped with cornice hoods on brackets. The first floor windows have iron balconettes and aprons featuring a Greek key pattern. Rusticated angle pilasters extend to the first-floor level, with a string course and stone console brackets supporting the eaves. To the left return is a four-light bay window with a pulvinated frieze and cornice to the ground floor. The right return has a basement storey and a raised ground floor with a stone balcony on carved console brackets to the far left, with ironwork matching the front. The interior of the house was not inspected during listing.

A terrace wall and steps run along the south side of the house, connecting to the roadside boundary wall on Grosvenor Road. The wall is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar, and includes a repaired balustrade from the late 20th century. A flight of stone steps with low flanking walls and square ashlar terminals at the west end lead up to the terrace. The house was built on the edge of a sandstone quarry, as shown on an 1850 Ordnance Survey map, and was later recorded as a vicarage on a later edition of the map.