Talbot House

Talbot House is a three-storey house, now offices, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with a late 19th-century addition at the rear. The building is constructed of red brick, with some painted stone dressings and a pebbledashed wall at the right-hand end. It has a slate roof and integral brick end stacks. The front elevation features a rendered plinth, a raised brick band at lintel level, painted brick floor bands that project over keystones, a painted brick dentil cornice, and a parapet with stone coping and a central rendered triangular pediment that is enclosed within the parapet at the rear.

The building has a 1:1:1 bay arrangement with a central break. It has original 18th-century slender-mullioned windows with thick glazing bars and painted stone cills. The ground-floor windows are topped with raised keystones, while the first-floor windows feature raised, chamfered lower edges and raised lintels. The second-floor windows have gauged-brick heads and raised keystones, with the central window being round-arched and containing a radial fan. One ground-floor window on the left-hand side is set within a wide blind recess. A ground-floor window on the right-hand side was widened around 1900 and fitted with a two-light fixed glazing panel beneath a painted chamfered wooden lintel.

The central entrance has an 18th-century door with eight raised and fielded panels, the upper four being glazed. It is set within a doorcase consisting of a lugged moulded architrave, flanking panelled pilaster strips, a frieze with a central raised panel, and consoles with shells at the base supporting a triangular pediment with a broken-back cornice. There are five concrete steps leading to the door. The left-hand return front has a pair of blind second-floor windows. The right-hand return front displays a blind second-floor window to the left, a 20th-century two-light wooden casement to the right, a first-floor cross window to the right, and a ground-floor glazing bar sash to the right.

A large, two-storey rear wing was added in the late 19th century. The interior includes a partly inspected section featuring an 18th-century three-flight rectangular-well staircase, rising two floors. This has an open string with cut brackets, moulded nosings, column-on-vase balusters (two per tread), a ramped moulded handrail, a wreathed to columnular foot newel, and a ramped moulded dado rail. On the left-hand ground floor is a room with a cross-beamed ceiling and moulded cornice. Six-panelled doors are found throughout the property.