78 Chapel Street

78 Chapel Street is a terraced brown brick house built in the late 18th century, now converted to offices. The building has been extended to the rear in the 19th century and early 21st century.

The main house is constructed of brown brick with a pantile roof and faces west onto Chapel Street. It is a four-bay building of two-and-a-half storeys. The pitched pantile roof features a cat-slide roof to the rear, descending low over the ground floor, with two flat-roofed dormers on the front slope and a single flat-roofed dormer on the rear slope. The roof covering was likely replaced in the late 20th century.

The front elevation has four four-over-four pane timber sash windows to the ground and first floors, set under gauged skewback arches, with timber casements to the attic storey, all replaced around 2000. A timber-panelled door with a four-vane fanlight and open pediment hood is positioned between the central windows, with a cast-iron boot scrape surviving to the north side. The rear elevation includes two lean-to extensions: a 19th-century single-storey extension and an early 21st-century two-storey extension, the latter replacing an earlier structure.

Internally, the ground floor was originally planned with rooms north and south of a central entrance hall, with the dividing wall removed around 2000. Timber-panelled doors with fanlights survive at the east and west ends of the former hall, with round-arched fanlight to the west and segmental to the east. The cornices and imitation fire surrounds in both ground floor rooms date to around 2000. The staircase at the rear of the building rises south to the first floor with plain timber stick balusters and a simple wooden handrail, appearing to be 19th-century construction. The kitchen, constructed around 2010, has a west wall of coursed rubble stone beneath the stair, with the outline of a former square-headed door opening, suggesting this may originally have been the rear elevation, with the current stair representing a later configuration.

The first floor formerly contained two large rooms, with divisions removed around 2000 to create single office space. The rooms retain late 19th or early 20th-century timber panelling above a dado rail and timber-panelled doors on the east wall. The first floor balustrade suggests the configuration may have been altered around 2000 for office use. The attic is accessed from a door on the west wall of the first floor corridor, with a corridor along the east side and two rooms north and west of the corridor. Some timber-framed roof structure is exposed, and partitions are composed of lath and plaster.

Red brick boundary walls survive to the east and north-east of the site, with a square-headed door opening to the churchyard of the Chapel of St Nicholas. The rear yard is paved with limestone slabs and contains late 20th-century single-storey storage cabins to the east of the building.