Number 15 And Attached Railings

Number 15 is a house, possibly incorporating a shop, now used as a dental practice. The core of the building dates to the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The house has a timber-frame structure, with a white brick facade, and a slate roof featuring modillion eaves soffits.

The front of the house has three storeys and a basement, with a three-window arrangement. The ground and first floors feature 12-pane sash windows in plain reveals, with flat gauged arches above. The top floor has six-pane sash windows. A raised stone band runs at the sill level of the first-floor windows, and stone sills are present on the other windows. The entrance door, located on the right-hand side, is set within a Greek Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a mutule cornice. The door itself is six-panelled, and it is topped with a rectangular fanlight. An attached row of cast-iron railings with a gate runs alongside the property.

The interior has been significantly altered, reflecting the 18th-century changes which were then superseded by the early 19th-century facade. The cellar contains flint and brick rubble walling, rendered and with a ceiling featuring a chamfered main beam and joists set on edge and a small square stone-edged niche. An early 19th-century small-paned sliding sash window is also present. In the rear first-floor room, the original fireplace retains a rounded back to the hearth, and the bricks, now stripped of their old render, show traces of original red ochre colouring and lining. The jambs are moulded and stopped. The main beams in this room and elsewhere have been hacked back for later plaster. 18th-century alterations include the addition of a top storey. The roof displays a ridge-piece, several reused older rafters, and evidence of the early 19th-century changes when the front was pushed forward, with a further set of rafters added to the front slope. A corner chimney-stack was inserted for the front rooms, and one attic room contains a cast-iron grate in a ‘Gothick’ style. A rear staircase in the entrance hall features stick balusters and a plain ramped handrail. A 19th-century cast-iron window with a segmental-arched head and unusual glazing-bars is located at the rear of the property. The house is accompanied by a substantial run of deeds beginning in 1691. A sale notice from 20 January 1826 details rooms which correspond to the entrance parlour, kitchen, sitting room overlooking Angel Hill, two bedrooms, two attics, and a cellar.