Lynch House

Lynch House is a house dating from 1899, designed by Niven and Wigglesworth in a free late 17th and 18th century style. The external fabric is red brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed brick dressings. The first floor and the gable end on the left are tile-hung, and the roof is covered in plain tiles. Originally two storeys and a garret, it also has a two-storey rear wing with a basement. A moulded string course runs at the level of the ground-floor windows. The end gables are asymmetrically shaped, with moulded brick coping, and a further shaped gable is present to the left of the front elevation. Brick gable end stacks are topped with moulded cornices. The fenestration is irregular, with four sashes to the front – one to the left and two to the right of the gable. These sashes each comprise three six-pane sections separated by mullions, with a taller twelve-pane sash positioned under the gable and featuring a blind semi-circular panel above it adorned with a long, tapered, corniced keystone and flanked by grey brick diaper work. All first-floor windows have moulded brick architraves, chamfered brick cills and shaped rubbed brick aprons. The sash window in the gable has a long tapered corniced keystone above the blind panel. The ground floor features deep Diocletian-style windows with similar keystones and chamfered brick cills. A half-glazed and panelled double door is set under the front gable, with a moulded architrave and a leaded canopy supported on scrolled brackets. A broad rear return wing is located to the left, with two shaped brick gables, two three-light first-floor windows, and two Diocletian ground-floor windows with keystones and iron balconettes. A canted bay window is present to the ground floor of the left side, featuring a panelled base, blind boxes, a dentilled wooden cornice, and an ogee leaded roof. The interior includes bevelled glass to hall screens, 18th-style moulded cornices to two ground-floor rooms (one with modillions), the landing, and four first-floor rooms. There are five fireplaces in an 18th-style, panelled doors, and a staircase with corkscrew balusters, a moulded handrail, and a scrolled top newel with ball finials.