Obelisk House

Obelisk House is a late 18th or early 19th century building, now divided into flats. It is constructed of ashlar stone on a squared rubble base. A plain string runs along the first floor level, with a moulded string above the first-floor windows. The building has a plain frieze and a moulded coved coping over the parapet, and an old tile roof with two brick chimneys. The front features five windows on the first floor, with the central three panes being wider than the remaining four. The ground floor has four four-paned windows and a central six-panel door set within a plain arched recess. The door is framed by a raised architrave and keystone, with a key pattern ornament and a delicate fanlight of a circular design incorporating the letters 'S' and 'W'. These initials are believed to represent the builder, Samuel White, who may also have constructed number 3 Church Street. A gabled, two-storey extension to the rear has a tile-hung first floor. The rear of the building is irregular and gabled. To the left of the street front is a two-storey rubble extension, likely from the early 19th century, with two small windows and a door on the ground floor. A modern, faced turret with a clock was erected in 1913. Two bronze plaques on the house commemorate a clock dedicated to John Hall, a notable Tariff Reformer in the West of England (1830-1909).