Comrades Club

The Comrades Club, originally a house, dates from the early to mid 19th century. It features a stucco exterior with a slate hipped roof and a red brick chimney on each side. The building has three storeys and cellars.

On the second floor, there are three recessed eight-paned double-hung sash windows. The first floor has double-hung sash windows in the two outer bays, which have central vertical glazing bars set in double recessed segmental headed panels. In the centre, there is a similar window in a deeper segmental headed recess that includes both the ground and first floors. The outer parts of the ground floor feature flat-roofed, canted bay windows with flat roofs, stucco cornices, and double-hung sash windows on each face.

In the centre of the ground floor, there is a doorcase with attached Tuscan columns and four stone steps that have a pair of cast-iron footscrapers. The door has two leaves with three moulded panels each and a moulded cornice, topped with a semicircular Adamesque fanlight. The building has a black painted plinth with two cellar lights, one of which has an iron grille. A flagstaff is mounted against the wall in the centre of the upper part of the facade. The south flank is rendered. At the rear, there is a lean-to roofed extension and a large 20th-century clubroom extension.

Inside, the building has been much altered, but some panelled doors remain on the second floor, as well as cornices in the front rooms on the ground floor.