St Maurice House

St Maurice House is a town house dating from the late 18th century. It features a rendered exterior, likely over studwork, and has a dry slate hipped roof with three flat-roofed dormers that have slate-hung cheeks. The building has a moulded eaves cornice. The layout consists of a double-depth plan with two front rooms of unequal size flanking an entrance hall. The first floor extends out on the left side, supported by a four-bay colonnade of square stone and brick columns, creating a covered walkway over the pavement of Fore Street.

The house is two storeys plus an attic and has a five-window range. It retains original 19th-century 12-pane hornless sash windows, some of which contain crown glass, all set within moulded architraves. The doorway is located towards the right and features pilasters and a moulded hood supported by consoles, with a blind window above. The left-hand return to Fore Street displays a moulded cornice above the colonnade, with two sashes on the ground floor within the loggia and one sash on the first floor to the left.

The interior has not been inspected, but a previous description notes a late 18th-century staircase with a handrail that ramps up to column newels and stick balusters. There is a panelled landing with a round-arched panel leading to a cupboard, and a first-floor room features a chimneypiece with a panelled overmantel. The ground-floor room includes an elliptical-arched alcove and a round-arched doorway.