The Swarthmore Institute

The Swarthmore Institute is a row of three houses, now used as offices, built between 1845 and 1846 by architect and builder R.W. Moore. The buildings are constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and feature a slate roof. They are two storeys high and have seven first-floor windows. The design includes a plinth and a moulded string course at the first-floor sill and eaves levels. The doorways are adorned with overlights and set within moulded architraves, supported by pilasters that hold up an entablature with a cornice and blocking piece. The windows are sashes with margin-light glazing bars, framed in eared architraves with recessed panels below on the ground floor. The first-floor centre window has a stepped moulding to its architrave, while the flanking windows have plainer architraves. A moulded cornice and blocking course run along the top, and there are 20th-century dormer windows on the right. Chimney stacks are positioned forward of the ridge, flanking the central three bays and at each end. The interior has not been inspected.