Greyfriars

Greyfriars is a large town house that has been converted into a community centre. It was built in the mid-18th century and features brick construction in header bond with stone dressings, topped by a plain tile roof behind a parapet. The building is three stories high on a raised basement and has a five-bay by three-bay layout, with the rear section being two stories.

The house has an offset plinth with rubbed arches at the end bay of the basement. The three central bays slightly project and are framed by four Doric pilasters on the plinth, which support a frieze, cornice, and pediment. The stone bases and capitals of the pilasters are decorated with leaf ornament. The central entrance features a six-panelled door with a radiating and wreathed fanlight set in a panelled reveal with an architrave. A Doric porch with fluted wall pilasters and two columns supports a broken entablature with a dentil cornice and an open pediment hood. In front of the entrance are four moulded stone steps with wrought iron railings.

On the ground and first floors, there are 12-pane flush frame sash windows in architrave frames with rubbed arches and stone keys, as well as similar 9-pane sashes. A moulded stone cornice extends from the architrave of the pediment, and the parapet has stone coping. The roof is hipped with paired stacks on the end wall.

Inside, the layout includes a central hall with rooms on either side, some of which retain 18th-century features such as six-panel doors, dado panelling, marble fireplaces, and a staircase. The house also has short one-storey high flanking walls with lean-to rooms behind; the right-hand side features a wall that comes forward to the street, complete with a double door in the corner.