10, Boutport Street

House, now used as a dentist's surgery. Dating from around 1700 with early or mid-19th century alterations. The building has solid rendered walls, probably of brick or stone, beneath a hipped slated roof with central valley. Two old red-brick chimneys with rebuilt tops are positioned symmetrically; a third chimney, of uncertain date, was removed from the rear end of the left-hand side wall in 1985.

The house follows a 4-room plan with a central entrance passage leading to a staircase at the rear. Double chimneys are positioned between front and back rooms on each side. The left-hand rear room on the ground floor appears to have been subdivided at a later date. An external corridor, probably added in the 19th century, links the rear of the building with Priory Cottage in Coronation Street, the ground storey of which is partly used by No. 10 as dental workshops.

The building presents 2 storeys with a garret and a 5-window range to the principal front. The ground storey features a centre doorway with a 6-panelled door and a 19th century oblong fanlight with margin panes, those in the corners containing coloured glass. A shell-hood on carved brackets forms the best feature of the building. Early or mid-19th century canted bay windows flank the central bay; these are 5-sided with the centre containing a 6-paned sash and the two sides with 16-paned fixed sashes bent to match the shape of the bay. A dentilled cornice appears above. In the upper storey the centre and end windows are blind, while the other two have 6-paned sashes in recessed box-frames. A raised band runs at first-floor level, and rusticated quoins appear at the left-hand end of the upper storey. The eaves cornice is boxed.

The return front to the right, facing Coronation Street, is a 2-window range without the raised band and rusticated quoins. To the left of the ground storey a French window with margin-panes is positioned; to the right, a pair of 6-paned casements with 12-paned transom-lights. The upper storey has 6-paned sashes. Two hipped dormer windows are located on the roof; two matching dormers appear on the left-hand side, and old barred sashes are visible in the rear wall, all of which can be seen from Rackfield.

The entrance passage features a dentilled box cornice and opens at its rear through a round arch on fluted pilasters to a dogleg wooden staircase which rises to the garret. Each flight has cut strings with shaped step-ends, twisted balusters, a flat moulded handrail, and square newels with moulded caps. A box-cornice runs through the ground storey. Both doors in the passage and the left-hand door in the stair compartment are 2-panelled with ovolo mouldings.

The right-hand front room has a wood bolection-moulded chimneypiece with moulded cornice. The left-hand room contains re-set late 16th or early 17th century panelling with fluted pilasters and a carved frieze. On the first floor all doors are 2-panelled with ovolo mouldings. The left-hand front room has a bolection-moulded wood chimneypiece with moulded cornice and a panelled window-seat. The right-hand front room has a wooden chimneypiece with ovolo-moulded architrave and moulded cornice. The left-hand rear room has a coved plaster cornice. The right-hand rear room has a moulded wood architrave and cornice to the fireplace, a panelled window-seat, and shutters. The roof timbers are original and include plastered principal rafters with short curved feet.