19, 19A AND 19B, THE CLOSE

19, 19A and 19B The Close is a house built in 1800, with a later 19th-century addition. It is constructed of brick and features tile and slate roofs with brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Georgian style, standing two storeys high with a rear basement and a symmetrical five-window range. It has a top modillioned brick cornice.

The entrance features a doorcase with a consoled cornice and an elliptical fanlight with radial glazing bars above a six-fielded-panel door, along with an iron bracket for a lantern. The entrance at the right end has a rubbed brick flat arch and a six-panel door. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches over twelve-pane sashes. The left return has a segmental-headed window with a tripartite sash consisting of four, twelve, and four panes.

To the left, there is a lower three-storey, three-window range that projects, featuring a slate roof and lateral stacks, along with a re-entrant porch. The rear of the building has a central glazed timber gabled porch on a brick base with return entrances accessed by curved steps. This house was built on the site of Bishop Hackett's late 17th-century house. Nos 19A and 19B were listed on March 6, 1970.