Windsor House

Windsor House is a detached town house, now converted into flats, dating from the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble walls with flat arches featuring projecting keyblocks, and has a rag slate roof, hipped to the front overlooking the garden, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice. There are two hipped roof dormers with late 19th-century six-pane horned sash windows. A brick stack is located on the left side, and an axial stack is positioned over the rear wall of the front room on the right. The house has an L-shaped plan, incorporating a small porch in the rear, left-hand angle. It is two storeys high, plus an attic over a basement, and features a symmetrical three-window facade facing the road. The garden front (right-hand return) is symmetrical with four windows, and the left-hand return has a three-window range. Most of the windows are original or from the early 19th century, and are twelve-pane hornless sashes. There are panelled doors, with the garden-front door featuring margin glazing to the top. The porch has a moulded entablature with modillions and fishscale slates to its roof.

The interior, based on a partial inspection, retains many original features including an open-well closed-string staircase with column-over-vase turned balusters, a ramped mahogany handrail, paired turned newels with pendants, an elliptical arch to the hall, a china niche, some moulded ceiling cornices, and a grate in a rear chamber.

The building's history includes being the site of The Windsor House Academy, a school run by John Wallis Coom in 1841.