Council House

The Council House, originally Wyndham House, stands on the site of the former St Edmund's College, which was acquired by the Wyndham family in 1660. The south front of the house was rebuilt around 1670, with significant alterations made in the early 18th century and in 1788. The building is two storeys high and features red brick facades on a stone plinth, with a projecting band at ground floor cill level. A bracketed stone cornice and blocking course is topped by a brick parapet with stone piers between bays, stone coping, and stone balls. The long south front comprises seven bays, flanked by narrower wings of one bay each. There are seven windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, all with rusticated stone architrave surrounds, voussoir heads, and moulded cills on curved brackets. The side wings are full height and include a three-centred arched window on the first floor, topped with an oval panel, and a rectangular ground floor window. The inner faces of these wings feature circular niches with stone surrounds and carved scroll brackets supporting a base. A central 18th-century six-panel double door is set within a rusticated bonded stone arch, featuring a radiating fanlight and a late 18th-century stone Doric porch with engaged columns, an entablature with a triglyph frieze, and a pediment.

The 1788 east front incorporates two three-storey angular bays flanking a central section with two first-floor windows and a large three-light ground-floor window recessed within a four-centred arch. The lights within this window have architrave surrounds, are divided by panelled pilasters, and feature flat carved brackets (Acanthus ornament) supporting a fluted frieze and cornice that projects forward over the brackets. A panel above the window holds a delicate urn ornament and lacks glazing bars. Additional end bays of two windows are also present. A large sham Gothic window, dating from the 18th or 19th century, is located on the west front. The north elevation is stuccoed with a parapet and a string below, and may date to the 16th century, and incorporates a stone mullioned and transomed window.

The interior has undergone alterations but retains two 16th-century plaster ceilings. The entrance hall occupies the position of a medieval hall and features fluted Doric pilasters. A council room contains a screen of Ionic columns, and the staircase is characterized by single iron balusters and a continuous moulded handrail.