Angel Corner

This is a house, now incorporated into the Borough Offices, dating from circa 1700, with a rainwater head dated 1702. It was refronted in the mid-19th century. The house is constructed of red brick, with a fully hipped plaintiled roof and two hipped gables to the rear (north).

The 19th-century facade features a parapet and a moulded brick dentil cornice. It has a five-window range of sashes, each with quartered glazing-bars in deep reveals, flat gauged brick arches and raised keystones. Two canted bays extend from the ground floor, each containing three small-paned sash windows. The central doorway is approached by a flight of stone steps and has a six-panel door with a plain fanlight, set within a heavy pilastered stone surround with cornice. The side and rear walls have a raised brick band and brickwork in Flemish bond. Three segmental-headed dormers are present on the south front and one on the east side, each with small-paned sash windows. The rear wall has a brick parapet, a moulded architrave, and four windows to each storey. These are sashes; three are narrow eight-pane windows and one is a wider twelve-pane window, all in flush cased frames, with one blocked on the ground floor. A half-glazed door is topped with a triangular pediment.

Adjoining the main house on the west is an early 19th-century range built of red brick, with old plaintiles to the half-hipped mansard roof. The rear of this range has two twelve-pane sash windows to the ground floor in flush cased frames, both blocked, and larger twenty-pane sash windows to the two flat-headed dormers. A later link connects it to the north end of the adjacent stable block.

The interior includes a cellar with a vaulted section lined with stone blocks, an entrance hall with limestone flags and moulded plaster cornices; full-height panelling with raised moulded surrounds to flush panels in the hall and the room to the east; and a fine original dog-leg staircase with closed strings, barley-sugar-twist balusters, moulded newel-posts, handrail and bolection-moulded dadoes. All the original doors are six-panel doors with raised fielded panels.