Cantax House And Front Garden Wall

Cantax House, built around 1700, is a two-storey red brick house with ashlar dressings and a hipped stone slate roof, featuring corniced rear stacks. The front has a formal seven-window layout, with the central three bays projecting and topped with a pediment. There are two gabled dormers, rusticated quoins at the center and corners, and a coved eaves cornice. The windows are twelve-pane sashes set in raised moulded surrounds, and the central entrance has a six-panel door within an architrave, topped by a hood supported by scroll brackets. A keyed roundel is featured in the pediment, and the rear has a central gable with short wings on either side. Inside, there are fielded panelled doors and shutters, with the right room on the ground floor fully panelled. The central staircase is plain with column balusters and bracketed treads. Attached to the northeast corner of the house is a coped red brick front wall that extends to Town Bridge, featuring two ashlar panelled gate piers with cornices and large urn finials. The south end of the wall, adjacent to the bridge, is from the 20th century. This house served as the vicarage until 1866.