41, 43 AND 45, FARNCOMBE STREET

41, 43, and 45 Farncombe Street is a house that has been converted into three shops and one flat. It likely dates from the late 18th century but has earlier origins, with additions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of painted brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. It has an L-shaped plan with wings that project forward, and the center was infilled in the late 19th century.

The building is two storeys high and has four bays on the road front. The three shop fronts include two on the left (number 41), which are from the late 20th century, and the third bay (number 43), which dates from the late 19th century and has been altered; it retains one panelled pilaster and a corniced fascia flanked by console brackets with dies and pediments. The right bay (number 45) is from the early 20th century and has been altered, featuring pilasters, a small-paned half-glazed door, a fascia, and a cornice.

On the first floor, the right-hand bay has a tripartite sash window in the reveal, consisting of a 12-pane sash flanked by two 4-pane sashes. The left-hand bay has a mid-20th century three-light window. Both end bays have stepped dentilled eaves under hipped roofs. The center bays are taller, featuring tripartite sashes, a parapet with dentils and coping, and a square-plan clerestorey with continuous small-pane glazing and a hipped Welsh slate roof.

At the rear, there are ground-floor outshuts and an old brick stack rising from the central part of the building. The first floor has three sash windows with glazing bars and a smaller blind window, along with stepped dentilled eaves. The roof is hipped with an old brick ridge stack at the end. The returns have truncated external stacks and stepped dentilled eaves, with the right return featuring two segmental arched two-light windows on the first floor.

Inside, the rear range at the center (number 43A) has hoists with hollow-moulded chamfers and lambs tongue stops. There is a fireplace on each floor, with architraves that have fluted pilasters and friezes with roundels at the ends. A wide staircase rises from the back to the front, adorned with an acanthus-leaf ceiling cornice.