16 and 17, Lemon Street

16 and 17 Lemon Street is a town house built around 1798 by builder Hill for tailor Noel Penrose. The building features a granite ashlar basement and local freestone ashlar above, topped with a natural slate roof behind a parapet and brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan with a central entrance hall flanked by two front reception rooms. The house is two storeys over the basement and has a symmetrical three-window front. The central doorcase includes slender engaged Tuscan columns and a moulded entablature with a dentilled cornice, along with panelled reveals, a six-panel door, and an overlight with traceried glazing bars. The first-floor has a sill string, a moulded parapet cornice, and original or early 19th-century twelve-pane sash windows under shallow segmental arches with projecting key blocks. The masonry on the ground floor to the left of the doorway has been rebuilt at some point, likely to replace a former shop front. The basement retains its original panel doors. The interior preserves much of its original carpentry and joinery details.