45 And 45A, Crown Street

45 and 45A Crown Street is a house that was originally built in the early to mid 18th century and later divided into two separate residences around 1900. The building features red brick construction with lighter red brick used for the top storey and the dressings of the two lower storeys. It has a plaintiled roof consisting of two parallel ranges with a valley gutter in between, slate covering the hips on the south side, a cement-rendered parapet, and a stone modillion cornice.

The exterior is three storeys high with a basement and has a five-window range. The first and second storeys have 12-pane sash windows, while the top storey has 9-pane sashes, all set in flush cased frames. The basement features four segmental-headed windows set within the plinth, with two having 9 panes and two having 6 panes. The wide central doorway is accessed by a flight of stone steps with cast-iron wreathed handrails, and similar railings surround the basement area. The central doorcase is adorned with three columns featuring enriched capitals, stilted friezes, and an open pediment, and it currently holds two Edwardian entrance doors with four panels each.

At the rear, the building has a wooden modillion cornice and a five-window range, with 12-pane sashes on the ground and first storeys and 6-pane sashes on the top storey, all in flush cased frames. There was originally a central doorway with a plain surround and bracketed open pediment, but this is now obscured by a single-storey extension added in the early 1970s, and the doorway may have been completely removed.

Inside No. 45A, there are signs of alterations to the layout from both the early 19th century and the time when the property was divided. A portion of a plain early 19th-century staircase remains, and on the half landing and first storey, there is a blocked timber arch in a Classical style, along with a plaster cornice and frieze featuring alternating metopes and Greek urns.