Britannia House

Britannia House is a house built around 1700, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It features painted stucco and has a double-pile, steeply-pitched hipped roof with one tall brick stack on the right side and two on the left. The building has a painted stone plinth and a central through-passage plan.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and presents a symmetrical three-window arrangement. The front has early 19th-century six-over-six pane sash windows and a central doorcase with pilasters supporting an entablature. The doorcase includes panelled reveals and soffit, along with an overlight that has a painted-over semi-elliptical fanlight. To the far right is a narrow half-glazed two-panel door. The rear of the house was refenestrated in the mid-19th century, featuring tripartite windows on the first floor and French windows below, all currently undergoing restoration. The central six-panel door has raised and fielded panels, panelled reveals and soffit, and a semicircular fanlight. There is also a central dormer from the 19th century.

Inside, the house has thin early 18th-century three-panel doors. The ground-floor rooms have chamfered axial beams. The room at the rear left has raised-and-fielded panelling below the dado rail and a narrow cyma-moulded cornice along the walls and beam. To the front right of the entrance, there is a closed-string staircase with two short flights between floors, featuring straight moulded handrails, heavy turned balusters, and square newels, with a turned pendant over the ground floor. The first flight from the ground floor was altered in the mid-19th century, adding a rounded handrail and stick balusters. The passage has 19th-century fluted moulding on the dado rail. The first-floor rooms to the right have thick cyma-moulded fire surrounds with 19th-century mantelshelves and segmental arches at the openings, with both flues connecting to the large stack on the right side. The attics are plastered, but the bases of the rafters are visible, and those in the roof space are made of sawn wood, likely replaced in the 19th century. The shallow floor joists, which are not visible, are said to be made from halved tree trunks.