Dowry Parade And Attached Front Walls And Piers

A house, later divided into a pair of attached houses, built between 1763 and 1764. Around 1790, it was divided into two separate dwellings. Constructed by Benjamin Probert and Robert Comfort, it was designed in the style of Thomas Paty. The building is of red brick with limestone dressings, featuring large brick party wall stacks and a pantiled double-depth roof.

The house is arranged with a double-depth plan and is of mid-Georgian style, with three storeys, an attic, and a basement. It has a five-window front. The symmetrical front features rusticated pilaster strips rising to a moulded coping. The paired central doorways have raised ashlar surrounds with imposts and cornices, semicircular arches with plate-glass fanlights, and 20th-century doors. There are six stepped voussoirs to the 6/6-pane sash windows, set in flush frames. The left-hand windows have a raking profile, while the right-hand windows are hipped. The middle windows across the party wall are blocked. Steps lead to open basement areas, where arched cellars lie beneath a deep flagged pavement, formerly with railings.

The rear elevation has a projecting, full-height central hipped section across the party wall. The interior remains unexamined.

Attached to the property are brick walls and capped piers to the basement steps. The original doorcases, which included Gibbs surrounds and pediments, were replaced when the houses were divided. Several speculative builders contributed to the construction, utilizing designs similar to those used by Thomas Paty.