47, Winchester Street

47 Winchester Street is a Grade II* listed building that features a late 18th century front attached to a mid 17th century structure. It occupies a corner site adjacent to St Edmund's Church Street. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a façade made of mathematical tiles set on a stucco plinth. It includes a string course at the first floor level, a band cornice, and a parapet with moulded coping, topped by an old tiled roof and flank chimneys.

The roof features two hipped dormer windows with lead casements, and there are five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all with moulded frames. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight that has a curved and radiating pattern. The doorcase is made of painted wood and includes an architrave surround with fluted pilasters, reeded necking, and an entablature that breaks forward over the pilasters. The cornice is moulded and dentilled, while the frieze is decorated with groups of flutes, a central urn, ribbons, wreaths, and small rosettes. A flight of six steps leads up to the entrance, featuring plain rails and ball-topped standards.

The front facing St Edmund's Church Street has a triple-gabled design with a projecting plinth and stone copings on the gables and short lengths of the parapet in between. The left gable includes double rusticated brick quoins capped with a small moulding and two 2-light stone mullioned casement windows, with the left window blocked. The remaining windows are irregular, including some stone mullioned and some 18th century sash windows. This east front represents the 17th century part of the house, constructed with English bond brickwork. The house is only one room deep, with a wing extending along Rollestone Street.

The north front is partly obscured by modern lean-to structures and additions, featuring four blocked windows that still retain their stone crosses. Inside, there is a notable 17th century staircase at the beginning of the wing, which rises through three storeys and features a closed string, turned balusters, and turned newels with openwork finials. The roof trusses in the wing are plastered over. Some of the original panelling from this house has been relocated to No 9 De Vaux Place. This building is recognized as an important house.