No 3 The Close

No 3 The Close is an Arts and Crafts style house designed by W Alexander Harvey and W Graham Wicks, and constructed between 1911 and 1913. The house is primarily built of red brick with pale stone detailing, and has clay tiled roofs, including a timber-framed porch. The plan is rectangular, with flanking pierced screen walls connecting it to adjacent properties.

The two-storey house has a two-storey gabled porch, constructed of timber framing, housing the main entrance, which is set off-centre on the principal façade. The porch gable and first floor are jettied, with drop finial decorations on the first floor. A large window fronts the porch, and a tall external chimney stack with coupled star section shafts and dentil detail is situated to the left. This left-hand bay is without windows, in contrast to the right-hand bay which has a variety of window sizes. On the ground floor, there are four unevenly spaced windows set within segmental brick arches; the window closest to the porch is wider than the others. A small, pale stone tablet engraved with the initials “W.W.” is also present on the ground floor, potentially referencing the architects' first names. Above, the first floor has four windows, the one closest to the porch being the largest. All windows have stone cills.

At the rear, a protruding central gabled bay mirrors the porch at the front, containing a single window on both the ground and first floors; the ground floor window is wider and has a segmental brick arch. A brick chimney stack with coupled star section shafts, a brick string course, and dentil detail is situated within the return to the right. The bay to the right of the property has a first-floor window and a single-width ground-floor entrance with flanking glazing. To the left are two additional bays, one single-storey with a catslide roof and a gabled dormer window above, connected to the final bay via a partially external chimney stack incorporating coupled star section shafts, a brick string course, and dentil detail.

The principal door leads to a small internal lobby, with a secondary timber door leading to the shared hallway of the houses. A timber staircase with a surviving balustrade ascends to the first floor. Historic architrave remains in the hallway and leading into the ground-floor rooms, although the ground-floor doors have been replaced with modern fire doors.

The house is linked to neighbouring properties by brick screen walls built into the fabric of those buildings and topped with hipped clay tiles. These walls feature unevenly spaced arches.