5, North Parade

5 North Parade is a house built in 1740, designed by John Wood the Elder, and restored and altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. It has a double depth plan but no windows on the rear elevation, forming a square block with No. 6 North Parade and No. 12 Pierrepont Street.

The house stands three storeys tall, with an attic and cellar, and is three windows wide. There is a platband at the first floor level, and it appears to have originally been part of a five-bay house with No. 6, featuring a central entrance. The facade is slightly set forward from Nos. 2-4, likely due to division in the early 19th century. The ground floor includes a six-panel door to the left, with a rectangular early 19th-century light above, and two six-over-six sash windows separated by a stone mullion, with a panelled apron below. The first floor has two windows with plain architraves and cornice heads, featuring six-over-nine sashes with dropped sills. The second floor has three six-over-three late 18th-century type sashes in their original openings. The exterior is finished with a dentil cornice, a parapet, and a mansard roof that includes three flat-topped six-over-six dormers, along with an ashlar ridge stack.

The interior has not been inspected. This house is part of the unfinished John Wood scheme for the Abbey Orchard, which was developed between 1740 and 1748.