3, Dodington

No. 3 Dodington is a house, now divided, dating from around 1720. It is constructed of red brick with painted sandstone dressings and features a two-span slate roof. The building has three storeys above a basement and includes chamfered quoins, a plat band between the ground and first floors with a raised top course, and a parapet with stone coping. The gable ends are parapeted and have pairs of integral brick end stacks.

The house has four bays with 4-pane sash windows, although the 18th-century glazing bars have been removed. These windows have painted moulded stone cills, rendered reveals, gauged-brick heads, and raised keystones with moulded tops. The top of the basement window to the right has a painted stone lintel. There is an 18th-century oak door in the second bay from the right, featuring six raised and fielded panels, and an early 19th-century Ionic doorcase with a pair of unfluted pilasters supporting an entablature. A lead downpipe from the 18th century is located to the right, with a fluted semi-circular rainwater head. A straight joint on the ground floor to the right of the downpipe may indicate a former doorway that was likely inserted.

The interior has been partly inspected and includes a sumptuous 18th-century dog-leg oak staircase that rises two floors. This staircase features landings, an open string with cut scrolled brackets, three balusters to each tread (with column-on-vase balusters flanking an iron-twist baluster, which is attenuated to the half-landing), and a ramped moulded handrail with curved knees and a wreathed half splay to a Doric columnular foot newel. There is also a ramped moulded dado rail and a small ground-floor 18th-century cupboard beneath the stairs with a raised and fielded panel. This house is particularly notable for its fine early 18th-century staircase.