Trinity College

This is a three-storey house, originally built around 1720 and extended in 1872-1908, now converted into flats. It was constructed for Thomas Rawlins. The building is brick with ashlar dressings, and has a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. It is laid out as a double-depth plan and is of Georgian style.

The front elevation features a symmetrical nine-window range. It has a plain ashlar plinth and a narrow band above the first floor, alongside rusticated pilasters to the ends and a three-window pedimented centre with a top cornice. A porch has brick pilasters and an ashlar entablature inscribed "COLLEGIUM SANCTAE ET/ INDIVIDUAE TRINITATIS/ AD MDCCCLXXII”. The entrance has a round arched doorway with archivolt, paired half-glazed doors, small return lights, and an eight-fielded-panel inner door. The ground and first floor windows have brick sills and aprons, with rubbed brick flat arches and keys over 12-pane sashes. The central first-floor window has a shouldered and eared architrave with a key. The second-floor windows have ashlar lintels over nine-pane sashes; the aprons of these upper windows are a pre-1872 feature. The pediment has a brick tympanum with an ashlar plaque commemorating the founding of Trinity College. A left return features a two-storey canted bay window, and the rear has a gabled wing to the left of the pedimented wing.

Inside, the hall has exposed timber framing on the left. An open-well staircase to the rear-left has a cut string with moulded tread ends, column-on-vase balusters, a moulded ramped handrail, a panelled newel to the foot, and a fielded-panel dado. A dogleg staircase to the rear-right has a moulded string and handrail, turned balusters, and square newels with ball finials. Some first-floor rooms have fielded panelling.

Trinity College was founded in 1872 by the vicar, Dr JD Collis. It closed in 1904 and was subsequently used as an army school until 1908. In 1907, the author Marie Corelli, who lived at Mason Croft, converted the dining room into a music room.