2, Loughborough Road

No. 2 Loughborough Road is a house dated 1788, with a mostly late 19th-century rear. It is constructed of red brick and features elaborate stone dressings, bands, a cornice, and coped gables, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick stacks at the rear. The design is in the Palladian style, resembling two intersecting temple fronts, with the inner and higher section slightly projecting forward. The house has two and three storeys, with five 6/6 sash windows. The first floor center features two sidelights, with the glazing bars forming octagons. On the second floor, there are two 6-pane swing windows. The ground floor showcases a central doorcase with Adam style decoration, a prominent bracketed hood, a six-panelled door, and a fanlight with decorated glazing bars. The front decoration is also inspired by Adam style. A double band with balusters runs beneath the central windows, which have blank arches above with impost bands. The larger central arch, spanning both the ground and first floors, is enriched with swags. There is a cornice band above the side windows. The central three-storey section features a modillion corniced pediment with urn and wheat-ear garlands decoration in the tympanum, and five urns on the coping. This house was formerly the Vicarage, and a tablet on the rear gable is inscribed 'R.T.A. 1788'. It is described as "An exceptionally elegant late 18th century brick house" by Pevsner.