Barrington House

Barrington House is a shop with accommodation above, dating from around 1850. It features painted Flemish bond brick and a turnerised slate roof that is hipped to Gold Street and curves at the corner with Barrington Street. The building has a right end stack with a brick shaft and some old pots, as well as an axial stack to Barrington House with one square and one cylindrical pot. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The building is situated on a corner site, with a ground floor shop facing Gold Street and a carriageway leading to Stokes Lane at the rear, accessible from Barrington Street. The exterior is two storeys high with a rounded corner. The Gold Street elevation has one window front with a platband that extends around the corner to Barrington Street, along with steps leading up above the carriageway. The late 19th-century shop front wraps around the corner, featuring panelled pilasters and shaped brackets that support a deep projecting moulded cornice. There are three-light shop windows on either side of the shop door, which has timber or cast-iron half columns. The half-glazed shop door includes a deep overlight, and there is one sixteen-pane first floor hornless sash window. The Barrington Street elevation has sixteen-pane first floor sashes and a segmental-headed carriageway. Barrington House has two ground and two first floor sixteen-pane sash windows facing Barrington Street, which have been replaced with UPVC windows. It also has a half-glazed 19th-century door that opens onto Stokes Lane.

Inside, Barrington House retains an elegant swan-necked staircase with turned newels and stick balusters. There is a vaulted cellar supported by brick arches. The plan form of No. 42 Gold Street remains largely intact, except for an inserted spiral staircase. The interior is plain, featuring simple picture rails.