Former Wentworth House At Girls' High School

The Former Wentworth House at Girls' High School is a substantial merchant's house built between 1802 and 1805. It stands three storeys tall with a blank basement and features seven windows. The three central bays project slightly, and the building is constructed of red brick with a stone basement, a cill band at the first floor, and a modillion eaves cornice. The windows, which have gauged flat brick arches and stone cills, are mainly sash windows, though there are one or two modern casements. A wide flight of five stone steps leads to the entrance door, which has a plain fanlight set within an architrave with impost blocks. This entrance is framed by a prostyle Roman Doric porch with a segmental pediment. The house was built for John Pemberton Heywood, a barrister and the son of a local cloth merchant.