3, The Crescent

3 The Crescent is a terrace house built around 1793, part of two terraces connected by a pair of houses that share a common pedimented facade dated 1808, alongside the Wesleyan Chapel built in 1803 by Joseph Medworth. This development was part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate. The house is constructed of local brown brick with a slate roof and a side stack. It has three storeys and a basement, featuring two bays. The stone-coped parapet has painted stone bands at the first and second floors. On the second floor, there are two recessed, twelve-paned hung sash windows set in cambered gauged red brick arches with stone cills. The first floor has two similar but larger windows, and there is one window on the ground floor. Access to the entrance, located left of centre, is via two stone steps leading to a six-panelled door with a plain fanlight, all within a double recessed red gauged brick arch. Inside, there is a notable open-string staircase. A plaque in the boundary wall commemorates George York, a Deacon of the Christian Society who died on April 14, 1815.