31, New Street

31 New Street is a late 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall with an attic. The brickwork features a hand at the first-floor level, a denticulated cornice, and a parapet. The roof is covered with old tiles and is half hipped on the left side. The gable ends and cheeks of the dormers are also tile hung. The building has an unsymmetrical elevation on two axes.

On the left side, there is one hipped dormer window with a Yorkshire casement at the attic level, and a four-panel window at the first-floor level. The ground floor features a door with six fielded panels, surrounded by a moulded architrave and a rectangular fanlight that has an elliptical, radiating, and wreathed glazing pattern. This door leads into a small octagonal hall.

On the right side, there is one dormer window with a moulded pediment and a two-light 19th-century casement at the attic level. The first floor has a wide, one-storey cantilevered angular bay window with a four-pane centre window and two-paned side windows, all with moulded architrave surrounds. Above the bay, there is a plain frieze and a moulded, denticulated cornice with a flat head, and the bay has panelled aprons. The ground floor has two windows with panelled shutters, sashes, and intact glazing bars.

Inside, the building features fine 18th-century fireplaces with marble inner surrounds and elegant mantles. The drawing room on the first floor has an architrave with ovolo moulding, scroll consoles on the frieze, and a female mask at the centre with leaf and rose decorations. There is also a good staircase with columnar balusters on a closed string and a moulded handrail.

This building is part of a group that includes Nos 22 to 49 (odd), the School of Arts and Crafts, and Nos 61, 63, and Nos 67 to 75 (odd).