17, Kersey Road

No. 17 Kersey Road is a house in a row, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of shale rubble with slate sills and shallow brick arches. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and slopes down towards the rear, featuring brick chimneys on the left gable end and the adjoining gable end of a higher house to the right. The layout consists of two equal rooms on either side of a central cross passage that leads to a central staircase, with narrower service rooms located under a rear outshut. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing southeast, with four-paned horned sash windows. The central doorway features an original six-panel door with flush-beaded bottom panels and later glazing on the other panels. It has an original basket-arched doorcase with fluted pilasters, moulded caps, a dentilled architrave, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. The interior has not been inspected. There is a cobbled alleyway along the left-hand side. This house is noted as one of the least altered 19th-century houses in Flushing.