Number 49 Gate And Railings

Number 49 is a former vicarage, now a house, with associated gate and railings, dating to around 1800, with a later 19th-century addition. The main house is constructed of stucco and brick, with a pantile hipped roof and two ridge brick stacks. The front elevation is of three bays and two storeys. It features a plinth and a first-floor band with Greek key ornamentation, supporting four pilasters. These pilasters have anthemion panels where they join the band and rise to support a frieze featuring applied shell and lion head motifs, topped by an entablature and a plain parapet with stumpy pinnacles above the pilasters. The central arched doorway has a door with Gothic tracery and an overlight containing tracery of arches, diapers, and circles, all set in a moulded surround with a hood mould and shield label stops. To either side are single bow windows with glazing bar sashes, with Gothic tracery to the upper parts and lights separated by clustered colonnettes, a frieze containing blank quatrefoil panels, and lead roofs. On the first floor is a central glazed quatrefoil in a moulded circular surround, flanked by single glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds. The upper parts of these windows have four-centred traceried arches with stained glass panels and trefoils in the spandrels. The 19th-century brick addition to the left has a hipped pantile roof, two storeys, and two bays, featuring a tripartite window with a planked carriage arch to the left and, above, two glazing bar sashes. At the rear of the earlier house are two projecting oriels on timber brackets to the first floor. The interior includes a dog-leg staircase with a wreathed handrail supported on decorative cast iron baluster panels, each individually moulded in a Greek style. One room has a deeply moulded cornice and a decorative plaster ceiling in high relief. The double doors leading to the garden have traceried glazing and stained glass panels and borders. Most doors feature contemporary moulded architraves with matching fittings, and there are two early 19th century fireplace surrounds. The gate and railings in front of the house are set on a stone plinth and are distinguished by a design of pierced Greek fretwork above a pattern of intersecting ogee arches, topped by a rail with spade-shaped finials. The gateposts are fluted and knopped.