35, Stafford Street

No. 35 Stafford Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the early 19th century but incorporates a core from the 17th century. The building is constructed of red brick with some painted stone dressings and has a plain tile roof. It features a two-cell baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic above a basement. The eaves cornice is toothed-brick, and there is a central brick ridge stack with two shafts flanking a central lower part, which is likely truncated, and has three round-arched panels. The façade consists of three bays, with a central break that has painted shaped stone kneelers and a parapeted gable with stone coping. The windows are glazing bar sashes, tripartite in the outer bays, with painted stone cills and lintels. The central entrance features a four-panelled door, with the lower two panels flush, and a rectangular overlight. It is framed by a painted stone Tuscan porch that has a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a cast-iron balcony above. The interior has only been partly inspected but includes pairs of 17th-century ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with ogee stops, early 19th-century four-panelled doors with moulded architraves, and internal panelled window shutters. The house appears to have originally been a 17th-century two-cell baffle-entry building that underwent significant rebuilding in the early 19th century.