45, North Road

No. 45 North Road is a medical supervisor's residence, now used as medical offices, built around 1850. It was designed by the architect Thomas Smith. The building is constructed of grey-brown brick in Flemish bond, with orange brick and stucco dressings. It features a hipped Welsh slate roof with eaves supported by coupled bracket modillions. The grey brick chimneys have a plinth band, oversailing courses, and square cream terracotta pots.

The exterior consists of five bays and two storeys, with the centre bay slightly projecting forward. The first floor has five recessed sash windows that alternate between divided and plain glazed, all set beneath alternating orange and cream rubbed brick flat arches, with stucco sills. The central bay includes a doorway raised on three stone steps, featuring a recessed six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed, and a plain glazed fanlight above a moulded transom. The doorcase is made of stucco and has Tuscan Doric pilasters with torus moulded bases on plinth blocks, along with an entablature that includes a fascia frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course. The centre bay also has a cornice of closely spaced stucco modillions below a plain unmoulded projecting band that is flush with the eaves. To the left (east) is a recessed, lower, two-storey service wing.

On the rear elevation, the first floor has four 12-pane sash windows beneath slightly cambered rubbed brick flat arches. The ground floor features a large projecting late 19th-century mullion and transom bay window with a fascia frieze and a lead-covered blocking piece.

This house was likely built as the residence for the medical supervisor of the adjoining County Hospital, also designed by Thomas Smith, and it is an important architectural element of this hospital group.