Townsend House And Attached Walls

Townsend House is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, constructed of English bond brick with stucco and plaster, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building has various brick stacks, including a large brick and stone buttress stack at the rear of the wing. The house is L-shaped in plan.

The north front, facing the street, is two storeys high and features a single-window range. It has a 19th-century tripartite window with 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2 sashes, along with two 6/6 sashes on the ground floor, positioned under a jetty. The right side has 6/6 and small 2/2 sliding sashes in stucco on the first floor. There is a recessed wing to the right with two advanced bays; to the left, there is a 6/6 sash above a 19th-century ashlar porch with a semicircular arch, enriched frieze, and pilasters with figures. There is a blocked 18th-century window with an inserted cross-window featuring leaded lights. To the right, a 6/6 sash is situated above an 18th-century moulded wood mullion and transom window with leaded lights. The central 19th-century eight/eight sash is flanked by a wood mullion window with leaded lights, above a large mullion and transom window with leaded lights, all under a moulded wood cornice.

On the left side, there is a six-panel door beneath a flat hood, flanked by 6/6 sashes, with a gable above and a buttress stack. The right side displays 18th-century brickwork with a storey band. At the rear, there are three 6/6 sashes and a blocked opening on the first floor.

Attached to the house are garden walls made of 18th and 19th-century brick on a rubble base, extending approximately 150 meters to the east and 50 meters to the west of the street front.