2 Wardrobe Place

2 Wardrobe Place is a Grade II* listed building constructed from red brick laid in Flemish bond, with sootwashed finishes. The top storey features yellow stock brick, and there are stucco dressings throughout. The building has four storeys above a double basement, with a central dog-leg stair and one room on either side.

The exterior presents an off-symmetrical facade with five bays, featuring plat bands between the storeys. The central entrance is framed by a deep moulded stucco arched surround, adorned with guilloche moulding on the lintel, and leads to a raised panelled door. The windows are fitted with moulded stucco architraves, and those on the ground floor have bracketed cills. The windows are 19th century or later, designed as 2-over-2 pane sash windows, and the building is topped with a triple pitch roof.

Inside, the close-string stair from the basement to the second floor is notable for its heavy square newel posts with ball and drop finials, along with turned balusters; the top flight has been partly reconstructed. The southern room on the ground floor features a timber box cornice of late 17th century or early 18th century design and an early to mid-19th century marble chimneypiece with a reeded surround and paterae ornament. The northern room has a reeded cornice. Both first-floor rooms are adorned with full-height panelling of early 18th century style, complete with ovolo mouldings, moulded dado rails, and box cornices. The north room includes arched alcoves on either side of the chimneybreast.

On the second floor, each room boasts an overmantel painting: the south room depicts an ice-skating scene featuring figures in 17th century attire, while the north room showcases a large country house set in a formal 17th century landscape, both framed within fictive gilt frames. The south room also has a plain black marble chimneypiece from the early to mid-19th century, featuring a notable grate from the 1870s designed by Thomas Jekyll and made by Barnard, Bishop & Barnard foundry in Norwich. The attic rooms lack significant features. The sub-basement contains two cellars with brick vaults; the northern cellar has shelves for barrels. Although these vaults may predate the building, their shallow form is typical of the 17th century, and their alignment with the current facade suggests they were built at the same time as the house.