The Old House

The Old House is a circa 1700 building, a symmetrical three-bay, three-window facade of two storeys with a central pedimented projection. It is constructed of red brick with blue headers. A random stone plinth is present, along with red brick quoins and dressings to the basement windows. The windows are characterised by flat arches with rubbed red brick headers; a continuous moulded brick band sits above the ground floor windows, with a lead arch of rubbed red headers to the extreme left, featuring a projecting moulded brick voussoir at its centre. This suggests a possible earlier alteration, potentially indicating a covered yard entrance and access to stables at the rear. The building has a heavy, projecting, painted, wooden, moulded, modillioned cornice with a concealed boxed leaded gutter and a modillioned pediment in the centre. The roof is hipped with Welsh slate, lead ridges and hips, with side elevations featuring a tiled roof and two symmetrically placed brick stacks. Four flat-roofed leaded dormers contain plain wooden casements.

The central entrance features a circa 18th-century panelled door, raised up three stone steps, set within a moulded doorcase, complete with a fanlight above. Fluted Doric pilasters flank the door, with moulded bases and capitals supporting a dentilled entablature, a triglyph frieze, and a bowed dentilled pediment with a panelled soffit. Small oval windows with leaded tracery are positioned on either side of the doorway. The ground floor has three sash windows to the left with intact glazing bars in exposed moulded frames, while two similar windows are present to the right. The third window to the right has been divided into two slit sash windows with a centre mullion; a further slit sash window has been added to the extreme right. The first floor incorporates a sash window over the door, with a hinged casement window inserted externally, set within a recessed brick panel. Oval windows flank the centre window, matching those on either side of the ground floor doorway. Three sash windows on the left of the first floor also have hinged outer casements, and three are present to the right with exposed moulded frames.

Painted wooden palings border the street, with four basement windows and areas visible. Flat segmental brick arches top the basement windows. A late 18th-century red brick addition is present on the right of the main elevation, featuring moulded wooden eaves, a gutter, and a hipped ridge tile roof. It has two wide 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and one similar window on the first floor. A short brick screen wall defines the extreme right, containing an 18th-century panelled and studded door leading to a passageway on the side.

The building is part of a group with Nos 6 to 24 (even).