No. 10 (Kent House) including railings and gate

House. First recorded 1762 when newly built. Two shades of yellow brick, two storeys raised over basement; roof concealed behind parapets. Double range plan with projecting servants wing to rear.

EXTERIOR: Symmetrical front of three windows wide set between projecting bay windows also three windows wide. High parapets with stone modillion cornice, sash windows to bays with gauged brick heads. Windows to first floor centre have arched heads, those to sides with 'Y' tracery and that in centre tripartite with arched top light. Door in tripartite surround with C20 fanlight over, flanked by medallions and set under band. Rear elevation of stock brick with red gauged brick heads on ground floor and yellow gauged brick heads on first floor.

INTERIOR: Hallway may have been remodelled in early C19, as the curved staircase - set against curved wall - has simple stick balusters, and a blocked window (now concealed) suggests some alteration. Shallow cornice. The north wall, opposite the main entrance door, has a symmetrical composition comprising a panel set between a door and a false door. Former drawing room has C18 plaster ceiling, frieze and cornice, and fireplace with terms. Cornices and fireplace too in former library behind hall, and cornices in adjoining room, now divided. Many original doors, architraves and skirtings. First floor retains cornices to the principal rooms, notably in curved room at eastern end of rear elevation which has modillions and enriched mouldings, and a frieze of alternate flutes and paterae. The central rear room appears to contain the original fanlight from the entrance door as part of an internal partition. Basement contains two vaulted rooms, while one room lined in stone may have given access from the river front to a rear yard.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought iron railings to front, ramped to central gateway (the latter renewed) and overthrow. Steps lead to raised ground floor.