3, Priory Road

No. 3, Priory Road is a house and workshop range dating to 1847, built in a neo-Tudor style for William Holland, a manufacturer of decorative arts, particularly stained glass. The house is constructed of painted stucco on brick, with a steeply pitched plain tile roof, coped gable ends with kneelers, and a moulded eaves cornice. It has two gable end stacks and an L-shaped plan, incorporating a rear wing, with a workshop range attached to the left-hand gable wall.

The facade is symmetrical, with three bays, and features slight, full-height gabled projections flanking the entrance. A continuous black painted plinth and a moulded string course run below the first-floor window sills. The entrance doorway is above two stone steps, featuring moulded jambs and a four-centred arch with an eared dripmould above a panelled door. Sash windows are present in the projections to either side of the recessed entrance, and three similar sashes are on the first floor, with smaller sashes in the gable of each projection. All windows have central vertical glazing bars and eared hood moulds.

Inside, the entrance hall has a moulded dado rail and leads to a staircase on the right. The staircase has moulded newels, a handrail, and turned balusters. The hall ceiling and the stair soffit display richly moulded plaster panels, likely samples from the workshop. A richly moulded ceiling also exists in a ground-floor room to the right of the hall. A door from the hall to the left-hand room has upper panels of etched glass. An encaustic tiled floor is in the hall. A subsequent inserted floor cuts across a partially blocked window in the rear wall, which now has 20th-century windows on both floors. It is interpreted that this area served as a two-story studio room adjacent to the workshop, originally featuring a tall arched rear window for displaying stained glass.

The workshop range is of painted brick with a plain tile roof and a moulded brick eaves cornice. It is a long range of seven bays. The ground floor of the first bay, attached to the house, was a works office, featuring a flat arched window with a three-light frame containing pointed arches and glazing bars. A carriage way, passing through the second bay with an outer segmental arch and two-leaf timber doors, provides access to a yard. The remaining bays have a pair of arched windows on both floors. Most windows retain small pane, decorative cast iron frames. Cast iron ventilators are set within square openings between the paired windows on the ground floor. The former drill hall at the rear of the yard is not considered of special interest.