Paternoster House Including Wall And Door Adjoining North

Paternoster House is a house dating from the early 19th century, significantly refashioned around 1830-1840 with additions to the south and rear. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with a slate roof and gable ends, featuring moulded cast-iron guttering with lion masks, and rendered gable-end chimney stacks.

The original house comprised a two-room plan with a wide central hall containing the staircase to the left, each room previously heated by gable end stacks. A small parallel range to the rear of the right-hand room provides services. Around 1830-1840, a two-storey, one-room plan wing was added to the rear of the left-hand room, overlapping the stair hall and accessing it; this wing has a parallel roof to the front range. Also during this period, a one-room plan addition was built at the right end, flush with the front but shallower in depth than the original house.

The house presents a symmetrical three-window facade plus a one-window addition to the right, completed around 1830-1840. The windows are sash windows, with early 19th century 16-pane sashes on the ground floor, and 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The centre and right-hand first-floor windows are later designs with horns. A central doorway features a four-panel door, a plain rectangular fanlight, and a late 19th or early 20th century glazed porch. The right-hand addition has a 12-pane sash window with horns to the first floor, and a small fixed-light window on the ground floor with a nine-pane design incorporating intersecting glazing bars in a four-centred arch head. An addition built around 1830-1840 to the rear of the left end has a bow window on both the ground and first floors, incorporating a pair of 12-pane bowed sashes on the ground floor and a single 12-pane bow sash above.

A short section of wall to the left of the front elevation, likely dating from around 1830-1840, is rendered with wooden battlements and a taller terminal pier. A doorway through to the garden contains a four-centred headed doorpane and a half-glazed door with intersecting glazing bars and flush bottom panels.

The interior staircase has stick balusters and square newels, with a turned bottom newel. The left-hand room retains a simple shouldered cornice and a simple wooden chimney piece with round-headed panels to the pilasters. Much of the original joinery remains, including panelled doors and cupboards. This is an attractive house with limited alterations since the 19th century, both externally and internally.