1, Fosseway

This is a substantial house dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th and 20th century alterations. It is built of painted coursed ashlar and dressed limestone, with limestone dressings, and has a modern concrete tiled roof. The house is two storeys high and has two frontages: the principal east elevation is three bays wide, and the secondary south east elevation also comprises three bays. The east elevation features three eight-over-eight hornless sash windows with glazing bars set within plain architraves at first floor, and two full-height French doors with marginal glazing bars. The south elevation has an arched doorway with an edge roll surround, a six-panelled door with a hand and wreathed knocker, and a wreathed and radiating fanlight above. The returning south east elevation has one full-height canted bay and one first floor canted bay above a modern two-bay shop front; both bays are topped with a decorative dentil cornice.

The interior is arranged with two principal ground floor rooms on either side of the entrance hall, alongside the modern shop to the south and west. The main room, behind the east elevation, has a good later 19th century marble fire surround with scrolled brackets and a decorative plaster cornice with repeating floral devices. The second room to the south of the hall also features a good, though slightly plainer, cornice. An axial stair rises in the southern range, with a door featuring an internal fanlight at ground floor level, and a balustrade with a turned newel and stick balusters at first floor level. There are two bedrooms off the axial corridor to the south east, and one to the east, with two to the rear. Two of these bedrooms have some decorative plasterwork, and all doors to the corridor have elaborated architraves with fluting and dies in the angles, with roundels set within. The shop's interior is entirely modern and of no particular interest.

The building is of group value for its imposing appearance, the quality of detail in its ashlar, doors and windows, the decorative treatment, and its degree of completeness despite more recent alterations. The interior retains fixtures of interest, including door and stair carpentry, fire surrounds, and decorative plasterwork. Though the roof cladding has been replaced, the building retains considerable architectural and historic interest.