Cornwallis House

Cornwallis House is a house that has been converted into flats, originally built around 1794 and extended around 1820. It features limestone ashlar and stucco, with a roof that is not visible. The building is designed in a mid-Georgian style and has three storeys plus a basement, with an eleven-window range. The symmetrical front includes a central 18th-century five-window block, where the middle three windows project slightly forward, flanked by two three-window wings from the 19th century that are set back.

The ground floor, known as the piano nobile, showcases bowed rustication along a plat band, a first-floor sill band, a cornice, and a parapet that rises in the center, adorned with balustrades over the windows. A large 19th-century raised porch features a rusticated basement with three semicircular-arched openings, separated by niches and supported by paired Ionic columns beneath an entablature. There are flights of steps on either side, finished with Pennant dressings and cast-iron railings that have diagonal bars. To the right-hand wing, there is a Pennant stair flight with wrought-iron railings. The basement windows are semicircular-arched, while the main windows are 6/6-pane sashes, with 3/3-pane sashes on the second storey.

The rear elevation, made of stucco, has a 1:3:1 arrangement from the 18th century, featuring quoins and inner pilasters, a plat band, a first-floor sill band, and a cornice. The doorway has a console cornice, a rectangular fanlight, and a six-panel door. The windows are framed with architraves and are keyed to the center, with 6/6-pane and 3/3-pane sashes. The projecting ashlar outer blocks have inner semicircular-arched doorways, and the ground-floor windows are set in elliptical-arched recesses linked by an impost band.

Inside, the building has been significantly altered, but the rear stair hall retains a notable mid-18th-century open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters featuring twisted vases, three per tread, and a moulded ramped rail leading to a wide curtail. The second-floor stair has column balusters and a modillion cornice.