Selwyn House

Selwyn House is a house, now converted to flats, dating from around 1780, with additions made in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, with parts of the exterior painted, and has a hipped slate roof. The house is three storeys high, with a basement, and features a symmetrical five-window facade. A full-height, central canted bay window has windows on its front face only. A sill band runs across the first floor, and a top cornice and blocking course finish the facade. The round-headed entrance is framed by pilasters, entablature blocks, and a pediment, with a fanlight and fluted frieze above a six-panel door.

The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches with key stones. They contain twelve-pane sashes on the ground floor, six-pane and nine-pane sashes on the first floor, with an eighteen-pane sash to the right of the bay, and nine-pane sashes on the second floor, although the central window has a six-pane sash. The basement level has iron area railings and bull’s-eye windows to the cants of the bay, one of which has an entrance below. The left return features a basement and ground floor projection with a basement entrance; it contains mostly twelve-pane sashes and a balcony with lattice balustrade and supports to a swept roof with a shaped frieze, and a French window. A lateral stack is also present. The right return includes a basement and ground floor projection, along with a projecting lateral stack.

At the rear, two large brick offset buttresses frame the projecting left half. A balcony, similar to that on the left return, is present on the ground floor. Windows are mostly nine-pane or twelve-pane sashes. The house is built on the edge of the medieval moat and closes the view at the east end of the close.