Clare House Including Garden Wall And Piers

Clare House is a house, believed to have been built in 1816 on the site of the former Clare parsonage, and later altered in the early 20th century. It is constructed with rendered mass wall construction and has a slate roof with lead rolls, hipped at the ends. A chimney with a rendered shaft and four old pots is present on the front wall, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The house has a deep plan, with two rooms wide and a central entrance leading to a passage and a stair cell to the right. The asymmetrical three-bay front features a pilastered timber doorcase with roses carved at the upper corners and a three-pane overlight. A portico with timber columns and a moulded cornice covered in lead provides access. A half-glazed, two-leaf door is fitted. To the right is an Edwardian stained glass window, high and transomed, flanked by a pair of opening casements with fixed sidelights, all featuring margin panes. Three first-floor windows have louvred shutters. Most windows are 2-pane casements with margin panes, believed to be conversions from sash windows. A single-storey pavilion block is set forward to the right, with a hipped slate roof and a deep timber cornice.

The garden elevation mirrors the front, with three first floor casements and two ground-floor three-light windows with margin panes. A blind recess with a 20th-century window is centrally placed. The rear right block has sash windows and a brick end wall, and is likely an early 20th-century addition.

Inside, notable features include moulded doorcases carved with lion's heads, a hallway with a plaster cornice similarly decorated, surviving 19th-century chimney-pieces, and a staircase with turned balusters.

A tall rubble garden wall with piers is included as a subsidiary feature, running along Newport Street. It features two round-headed archways to the left and right, and ramps leading to a carriage entrance at the far right.