48, Britton Street

No. 48 Britton Street is a terraced house, likely originating from the 18th century, with a front that dates from the early to mid-19th century. It has served various purposes, including a glass moulding works and a public house known as The Red Lion and French Horn during the 19th century; it is now used as offices. The building features yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, and a slate roof.

It stands three storeys high and has a three-window range. The ground-floor front likely dates from its time as a public house, showcasing wooden pilasters that frame flat-arched entrances with cornices and overlights on either end, a fascia and cornice above, and a multi-paned window between the entrances. The first floor is stuccoed and has pilasters flanking three flat-arched windows, although the entablatures are now missing. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched, and there is a parapet above a two-span roof.

Inside, the ground floor features full-height tongue-and-groove panelling in the front and back rooms, as well as in the side passage and staircase up to the first floor, continuing on the party wall to the second floor. There is a good iron fireplace and grate from around 1900 in the back room on the ground floor. The staircase has plain newels and enclosed balusters up to the first floor, with turned balusters above. The first-floor front room retains original panelling on the side and back walls, though the front was rebuilt around 1985, as were the ceilings throughout. The second-floor front room to the left is panelled to dado height and features a plain early 19th-century fireplace, while the back room has an early 19th-century corner fireplace.