5, Sun Street

TL 1828 NW 2/42

SUN STREET (east side), No 5

13.4.51

GV II

House, now club. Circa 1760. Flemish bond brick with red quoins and dressings; half-hipped M-shaped old tile roof; brick end and rear lateral stacks. Double- depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range, with 3 central bays brought forward. Panelled double doors set in panelled reveals with Greek key soffit; pedimented doorcase has fluted pilasters with dentilled cornice. Gauged flat brick arches over 12-pane sashes. Raised storey band; bracketed wood cornice; flat-roofed dormers. Late C19 extension of brick with Welsh slate roofs, to rear. Interior: ground-floor room has C18 plaster cornice and decorative fanlight over altered door to rear; stair-hall to rear has bracketed cornice and fine open-well staircase with ramped mahogany handrail, turned balusters set on open string and foliate carved brackets. First-floor room to front has panelled soffits to beams, panelled walls with dentilled cornice and two classical fireplaces with flutes friezes.

Listing NGR: TL1841428956