No. 39, Shropshire Street

No. 39 on Shropshire Street is a house built around 1800. It features a red brick exterior with a plain tile roof and stands three storeys high over a basement. The building has a dentil brick eaves cornice and integral brick end stacks that have been rebuilt. It is designed with three bays, showcasing glazing bar sash windows, mostly with 16 panes, that have painted stone cills and lintels. To the left, there is a three-light segmental-headed basement window.

Access to the house is via three stone steps leading to a central door, which has six raised and fielded panels, a rectangular overlight with a radial fanlight, and a moulded surround. The doorcase is adorned with fluted pilasters featuring fret-ornamented capitals, sections of entablature with reeded architrave, a frieze with flutes at the centre, and wheatsheaves above the pilasters, topped with a triangular pediment. The front of the house also has stone plinths from former railed enclosures.

Inside, the small lobby contains a six-panelled door with margin lights. The right-hand ground-floor room has a former kitchen fireplace that includes a circa 1800 cast-iron range with a wooden surround. The windows throughout the interior have moulded wooden architraves, and there are six-panelled doors with architraves. The staircase is boxed in and features stick balusters leading to the landing.