2, St Peter Street

A house, dating from approximately 1835 to 1845, now used as offices. It is constructed of local grey limestone rubble, brought to course, with a natural slate roof and gabled ends. The building is of Tudor style.

The house is situated on a constricted, steeply sloping corner site between Angel Hill and St Peter Street. It has a distinctive L-plan shape; one block angles acutely to the other. A staircase is housed within a rear semicircular turret off the St Peter Street block.

The building is three storeys and basement high on St Peter Street, with the basement exposed on the Angel Hill elevation. A chamfered string course runs at the level of the first-floor window sills. Windows have chamfered stone sills, with the principal windows featuring heavy hoodmoulds and label stops. The two-bay Angel Hill elevation has a coved eaves cornice. Windows are glazed with 12-pane hornless sashes, although the basement windows and second-floor windows lack hoodmoulds, and the second-floor windows have a 3 over 6-pane arrangement.

The St Peter Street elevation consists of the single-bay gabled end of the Angel Hill block on the left and a two-bay block set back and at right angles to the right. The gabled block has a large timber finial and windows matching those on the Angel Hill elevation, including a hoodmould over the second-floor window. The right-hand block has a shallow Gothick timber porch with an arched head, sunk spandrels, a stout cornice, and a timber embattled parapet. The porch contains a panelled Gothick door with four arched lights above the middle rail and four blind panels. Paired ground-floor 12-pane sash windows are present to the right; a 4-pane sash sits above the porch. The first-floor windows are a 1 over 2-pane sash to the left and a 3 over 6-pane sash to the right.

Interior features include some original joinery, plaster cornices, and an attractive curved staircase with stick balusters within the projecting turret.

The building occupies a prominent position.