25, St Johns

No. 25 St Johns is a house that has been converted into a dental surgery in the rear section. It was built between 1750 and 1770 and features red brick with stone dressings and a plain clay tile hipped roof with dentilled eaves. The building has end stacks with oversailing detail and a timber doorcase. It has a single-depth plan with a central hall and staircase, and a service range set back to the right at an obtuse angle due to the shape of the plot. The symmetrical facade consists of two storeys, a cellar, and attics, with five first-floor windows.

Notable stone details include channelled, engraved, and capped keystones above the windows. The central first-floor window is a 12/6 sash with a semi-circular arched head, featuring traceried glazing bars in a gothic style and floral motif carving on the arch keystone, topped with egg and dart moulding. The other windows are 6/6 sashes under flat gauged brick arches, all in near-flush frames with timber sills. There are two cellar windows to the left under segmental arched heads. Access is via two stone steps leading to a six-panel door, which is raised and fielded, with lattice pattern glazing bars in the overlight. The doorcase features fluted pilasters and a pediment with a triglyph frieze. Three hipped-roof dormers contain paired, two-pane, side-hung casements.

Inside, the hall is flagged with black and white stone. The open-well oak staircase has slender turned balusters and a wreathed and ramped handrail, with a panelled dado. Most doors are six-panel with panelled reveals and soffits, while attic doors are two-panel. The windows have panelled shutters with panelled soffits. The attic fireplaces have simple timber surrounds, with one concealed behind plasterboard. The first-floor fireplaces feature timber and marble surrounds, one of which retains its original cast-iron hob-grate in an opposed semi-circle design. The left ground-floor room has an enriched plaster cornice.