Number 42 And Attached Railings

This is a house, later used as offices, built in 1793 and altered in the 19th century. It was designed by John Cordingley, a master carpenter. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof and wrought-iron railings. It is two storeys high with a basement and attic, featuring a symmetrical facade with four bays and a 1:1:3:1 window arrangement. An additional bay sits to the left. The central entrance features a panelled door with a fanlight, three-quarter Tuscan columns, and an open pediment. It has plate-glass sash windows, stone sills, painted lintels, and a sill band to the centre of the first floor. The eaves have a dentilled cornice and the pediment contains a round window in the tympanum.

The interior, which is now part of an office complex extending to numbers 40-44, retains a fine staircase with knopped column on vase balusters and two straight flights leading to the first floor. There's a round-arched stair window, and the house is reputed to contain panelled walls, a fine moulded cornice, a bolection moulded fireplace on the ground floor left, panelled walls, a cornice, a round-arched alcove, and a fine fireplace on the ground floor right. A ground floor rear room has an elliptical pilastered fireplace, and the landing features round arches and fluted jambs. The railings are plain with bud finials.

John Cordingley also built numbers 26 and 27 Park Square. In 1799, this house was sold for £1500.