Lesta House

Lesta House is a house built around 1810-1820, possibly a refronting of an 18th-century building. It is constructed of limestone with an ashlar front, a stone slate roof, coped gables, and flanking brick chimneys. The house is double fronted with a blocked side passage and has two storeys and an attic, featuring three bays. There is a plinth and a first-floor band course. The windows on the first floor are boxed 3-pane sashes with stone lintels, while the ground floor windows are 20th-century replacements in altered openings, complete with 20th-century louvred shutters. The right window on the ground floor retains a wider flat stone arch. The central entrance features a four-panelled door with a radiating semi-circular fanlight, set in a fine stone doorcase that has a moulded open pediment hood on moulded pilasters with carved acanthus leaf capitals. There is one stone step leading up to the door. The doorcase is similar to that of Waterloo House on Broad Street. There are traces of a blocked passage entry to the right and a small partly blocked attic casement in the right gable. The rear has later 19th-century extensions, and the interior has been altered.