Guardian House

Guardian House is a town house that has been converted into an agency. It dates from the early 19th century and may have been refronted from an earlier 18th-century house. The front is finished in stucco, and it has a dry Delabole slate roof with a hipped roof dormer. The building features shared end stacks, with a brick stack on the left and a rendered stack on the right. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys plus an attic, with a two-window front. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set within moulded stucco eared architraves, topped with a heavy cornice at the parapet. The ground floor includes a Doric doorway on the left, which is flanked by engaged fluted columns and has a moulded entablature with triglyphs. There is also a wide window opening with a moulded eared architrave and a 20th-century transomed window. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.