Regent House Including Gate Piers

Regent House, including gate piers, is a house built in the early 19th century. It has a stucco exterior and a slate roof that is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left end, with a hipped roof at the rear wing. The house is approximately rectangular in shape and has a double-depth plan with an entrance on the west side, which was the former garden elevation. The details of the interior are unclear as it was not inspected during the survey.

The exterior of the house is two to three storeys high and features an asymmetrical front with two bays in a lower-roofed block at the left end. The taller block has deep eaves supported by eaves brackets, platbands, and steps leading up to a wide front door on the left, which is framed by a good doorcase with brackets and a dentil frieze below the cornice. The taller block has three ground floor 19th-century two-pane sash windows, three first floor 12-pane sash windows, and three second floor six-pane sash windows. The two-storey block on the left has two first floor 19th-century two-pane sash windows.

The right side of the house, facing the Strand, has three bays with two ground floor mid to late 19th-century canted bays topped with iron cresting and four-pane sash windows. There are also three first floor 12-pane sash windows and three second floor six-pane sash windows.

Adjoining this elevation on the left are a pair of gate piers topped with pineapple finials. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features. An earlier description mentions a castellated red brick garden wall with three square corner towers, a gardener's cottage, and a gazebo, all dated 1837. Regent House was formerly the home of Captain Peacock, a local celebrity known for his collection of curios and his role as a keeper of pleasure boats.