3, Bathwick Hill

No. 3 Bathwick Hill is a detached house built around 1825, likely designed by John Pinch. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a single-pitched slate roof with paired windows and a 20th-century central dormer. The house has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with an attic and lower ground floor, presenting a symmetrical three-window front.

The exterior includes a returned coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and a first-floor sill band. It has six-over-six pane sash windows, with the window above the porch featuring louvred shutters. A shallow projecting enclosed stone porch is richly decorated with a Regency ogee motif, fluted and reeded details, eagles' heads, leaves, and pineapple finials, supported by Soanian pilasters with incised decoration. The door is set back and has a large circular panel in the center.

The interior has not been inspected, but photographs from 1947 in the National Monument Record show a staircase ceiling adorned with heavy plaster cornices featuring a meander pattern and egg-and-dart enrichment, six-panel doors with rosettes at the corners of the frames, and chimneypieces with reeded surrounds and Adamesque reliefs.

Additional features include gatepiers that echo the Soanian incised ornament of the porch, along with well-crafted cast iron railings decorated with anthemion motifs. This house is a notable example of a late Georgian villa that contributes to the development of Bathwick Hill, particularly distinguished by its elaborately designed door, which reflects the decorative style more commonly found in furniture of the period. The date of construction is derived from a conveyance from the Earl of Pulteney's estate, and the designs for this and nearby houses were produced by the Darlington Estate Office, where Pinch served as surveyor.