Joseph Pitt House

Joseph Pitt House is a vicarage, later converted to offices, built in 1842. It was presented to the Reverend J Brown of Trinity Church by his parishioners and cost approximately £1,500. The building is constructed of stucco over brick, with an artificial slate roof and yellow brick stacks. It is two storeys high with a basement and attics, featuring four first-floor windows and a single-storey, set-back entrance porch to the left return. The stucco detailing includes a plinth with Tuscan pilasters extending through the ground and first floors to the ends and between windows, and a crowning frieze and cornice. The windows have tooled architraves; those on the ground floor have pediments on consoles. The eaves are wide and supported by brackets. The main facade has horned 1/1 sash windows, with blind boxes to the first floor. Attic dormers have 3/3 sash windows and pediments on corbel brackets. The basement windows are 8/8 sashes. A flight of steps leads to the solid porch, which has Tuscan pilasters, an architrave, frieze, cornice, and a blocking course, and a 6-fielded-panel door with a blind overlight. The left return has three first-floor windows, including blind openings and one 3/3 sash, all with similar architraves to the front. The interior retains original joinery and plasterwork. Notable features include an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail featuring a rod and central bobbin balusters, panelled window shutters, cornices incorporating egg-and-dart detailing with acanthus modillions and fleurons to the hall, and panelling to some ceilings.