33, 35 AND 35A, POTTER STREET

Nos. 33, 35, and 35A on Potter Street are a pair of houses that now serve as a Masonic Hall and a residence. They were built in the early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The buildings feature irregularly coursed ashlar stone and a steeply pitched slate roof. Architectural details include ashlar and stucco dressings, a plinth, rusticated quoins, bands at the first floor and eaves, deep moulded stone eaves, sill bands, and dentillated eaves at the rear.

The structure has a single ridge and gable stacks, along with a single coped gable with a kneeler. It is two storeys high plus attics and consists of seven bays. The central entrance has a pedimented Doric portico that contains a recessed panel with two plain sash windows, flanked by pilastered doorcases with cornices and hoods, leading to two leaf doors. To the left are two leaded sash windows, and to the right are two 20th-century casements, all with projecting architraves. Above, there are seven glazing bar sashes with projecting architraves, and a central segmental pedimented dormer flanked by single pedimented dormers, which contain two glazing bar sashes and a single 20th-century louvre.

To the right, there is a single-storey, single-bay 19th-century addition with a central ashlar doorcase. To the left, a 20th-century two-storey extension is noted as being of no interest. The rear elevation features off-centre paired doors, flanked by single canted two-storey bay windows, each with three glazing bar sashes on both floors. To the left, there is a bow corridor linking to 35A, which has a doorway and a blocked opening to the left, and a single glazing bar casement to the right. Above, there is a balustrade, with a single plain sash and a single glazing bar sash above that. Further left, a pedimented rear wing has a central French window, and above it, a glazing bar Diocletian window with a hood mould.

Inside, to the right, there is a large ashlar fireplace with projecting square bases and imposts, along with a rusticated lintel, flanked by smaller openings with plain lintels. The interior also features a two-storey open well cantilevered stone staircase with iron balusters and a mahogany handrail, a single late 18th-century carved timber fireplace with a mantelshelf, and several four and six-panel 18th-century doors.