Prospect Place

Prospect Place is a building originally constructed as a poorhouse in 1772, now divided into three dwellings. It is made of brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with a stone slate roof. The structure has a rectangular double-depth plan, with a central projection at both the front and rear. It stands 2 and a half storeys tall and features seven bays, which were once symmetrical. The wide pedimented three-bay center projects forward, defined by a three-course band with a dentilled middle course, and includes a stone tablet inscribed "PROSPECT PLACE."

The building has some blocked vertical rectangular windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads, but most are now large sash windows with exposed boxes. The central and right windows of No. 9 have four panes. The doors for Nos. 9 and 11 have rectangular overlights, while the left end (No. 13) has been altered and rendered. There are two ridge chimneys and end wall chimneys. The right return wall has three bays, with a central door featuring six fielded panels and a ten-pane overlight, surrounded by raised stone. Each side of the door has very large blind windows with gauged brick heads and stone sills. The rear of the building is similar to the front but has the stone head and jambs of a former doorway at the ground floor of the projected center. A bridge links the first floor of the right-hand return wall to an adjoining property not included in this listing. The interior has not been inspected.

Historically, this building served as a poorhouse for the parish of Rothwell until 1814 when separate townships established their own poorhouses. It later functioned as a debtors' prison and subsequently as a surgery.