11 and 11a, Boutport Street

11 and 11A Boutport Street is a house, partly used as newspaper offices and partly as a cottage, dating from around 1820. The building is finished in stucco with a slate roof and features stacks with rendered shafts. It has a double-depth plan, with the main range being two rooms wide and a central entrance leading into a wide passageway that contains the stair. There is a service wing, which is set back and adjoins at the right end, now in separate ownership as No. 11A.

The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical three-bay front. It features a cornice below the parapet and pilasters on the left and right. A semicircular porch with a parapet and round-headed windows leads to a round-headed outer doorway, which has a plain fanlight and two-leaf panelled doors with fielded panels. Inside the porch, there is an inner door with glazed panels and 19th-century floor tiling. The ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and 8 over 12-pane sashes, while the first-floor windows have 16-pane outer sashes and 12-pane centre sashes, all with moulded architraves and cill blocks. The attic features three hipped roof dormers.

The rear elevation has double-hung small-pane sashes, with the first-floor windows featuring individual cast-iron balconies with lattice ironwork. There is also a canted rear centre porch with a flat roof and a door with an arched fanlight. No. 11A has plastic ground-floor windows and 12-pane sashes above.

The interior has been partially inspected and includes a good staircase, original joinery with reeded doorcases and window reveals, and some surviving chimneypieces, including a white marble chimneypiece from the 1860s in the ground-floor front right room, which has a ceiling rose.