Staithe House

This is a substantial house, likely the residence of a merchant or owner of the adjoining staithe (a landing place for boats). It was probably built in the second quarter of the 18th century. The house is constructed of Flemish bond gault brick to the facade and west garden return, red brick to the east gable, and has a black glazed pantiled roof. It comprises a two-storey, five-bay main block, with a contemporary wing to the east forming an "L" shape. Later 19th-century service additions are located at the rear.

The facade features a three-bay pedimented centre, with slightly recessed bays flanking it. The central bays contain two narrow sash windows on the ground floor, with a central window and two flanking narrow sashes above. The wings each have two ground-floor and two first-floor sash windows, all with flush wooden frames, thick glazing bars, and flat rubbed brick arches.

The fine central wooden doorcase includes two fluted Ionic half columns with bases and capitals, an entablature with a pulvinated frieze decorated with foliage, a detailed projecting cornice, and a pediment. These details are repeated in the outer framing architrave, with leaded flushing. The door itself is a six-panelled, moulded door, with four glazed panels, a rectangular fanlight featuring thick wooden glazing bars, a central shell motif, and spandrels with foliage relief. A moulded and panelled reveal frames the door. The facade is unified by a brick plinth, a first-floor plat band with a moulded base, an eaves cornice with moulded bases and modillion brackets, and a moulded parapet, all details echoed in the central pediment, which has a rubbed brick central round oeil de boeuf (bullseye) window with glazing bars.

Brick coped end gables have stone roundels on plinths at the springing of the gable, with two end and one ridge stack. The east gable is flush, while the west gable continues the relief strings of the facade in red brick, incorporating two ground-floor, two first-floor sashes and one segmental brick arched head window, lighting a landing, all with glazing bars. A lower, single-bay, two-storey red brick wing projects at the north east.

The interior maintains a high standard of quality. It features a central stone-flagged entrance hall with a contemporary stone fireplace, a lugged surround and an open-well staircase with a first-floor landing. The staircase boasts fine carved strings with two turned balusters, each with urn bases, and a handrail with a swept neck at the landing. Two ground-floor six-panel raised and fielded doors are set within moulded architraves with panelling. One room to the west has two fine carved doorcases with moulded architraves, lugged corners, broken pediments, and central carved cartouches bearing monograms, along with six-panel raised and fielded moulded doors.