Soli House (Catholic Youth Hostel)

Soli House, formerly known as Avonfield, is a town house built between 1809 and 1810, now serving as a Catholic youth hostel. It was constructed for William Oldaker and features a double-depth plan in the Georgian style. The building is made of brick with ashlar dressings and has a parapeted roof, partly tiled, with two large brick stacks. It stands three storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay front.

The facade includes an ashlar plinth, two platt bands, and a plain stone-coped parapet, with bays defined by pilaster strips. The entrance features 20th-century glazed doors. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches, with 16-pane sashes on the ground floor, 12-pane sashes on the first floor, and a mix of one 6-pane sash and two casements on the second floor. A large late 20th-century timber and glass lean-to sun lounge is also present.

On the right side, there is a bow window with a modillioned brick cornice and a hipped slate roof, featuring a 16-pane sash. The rear wing has segmental-headed sashed windows and a 20th-century gabled projection. The rear of the building has three-storey wings under hipped roofs flanking a hipped centre with a later lean-to porch. This porch has extensive glazing and a triangular dormer, while the inner entrance showcases reeded pilasters and a bracketed open pediment, with a fanlight above a six-panel door that is partly glazed. A round-headed stair window above features small-paned glazing.

Inside, the building has cornices, with one room displaying a dentilled cornice and a 19th-century marble fireplace with a round-headed iron grate, and another room featuring a mirror over the fireplace. A 20th-century staircase is also present. It is said that some stone used in the construction came from the demolished charnel house attached to the Church of Holy Trinity.