Sherborne House

A block of three houses, built around 1825 and altered in the late 19th century, was designed for John Chadborn. The building is constructed of brick, with a stuccoed front, and has slate roofs and brick stacks. It comprises a double-depth block, with a central house, number 25, flanked by recessed mirror-image houses, numbers 23 and 27, each having rear wings.

The front is symmetrical, with the central house featuring three bays, and the recessed flanking houses each having one wide bay with a narrower bay set further back. Number 25 has a rusticated ground floor and a stone-paved verandah across the full width. A balcony above the verandah, supported by slender cast-iron posts and a delicate wrought-iron balustrade, is located at first-floor level. Giant, shallow, panelled pilasters, inset from the corners, give definition to the bays on the first and second floors, supporting a crowning entablature and parapet. The ground floor entrance doorway to number 25 has a fielded eight-panel door with glazed top panels and flanking sidelights, with a segmental-arched head enclosing a decorative metal fanlight framed by a moulded architrave. Tall sashes with 3x5 panes are on the first floor, and sashes with 3x4 panes on the second floor, all within openings with decorative, bow-fronted wrought-iron window guards.

Number 23 has an offset plinth, a raised band at first-floor level, and a crowning cornice with a parapet. The recessed bay to the right features an entrance porch approached by stone steps with a wrought-iron balustrade, and the lean-to porch canopy is supported by decorative wrought-iron standards. An entrance doorway has a semicircular arched head enclosing a decorative metal fanlight and a fielded six-panel door, framed by a moulded architrave. Sashes with glazing bars and decorative wrought-iron window guards are present on the upper floors.

Number 27 is similar to number 23, except the original porch was replaced in the late 19th century by an open timber-framed gabled porch. This porch incorporates moulded and carved late 16th and 17th century timbers, including turned posts and richly scrolled barge boards with a turned apex finial, likely decorative timbers salvaged from Gloucester houses. An original sash in the wide bay on the front has been replaced with a plain horned sash within an added moulded architrave and cornice. The interior of the property was not inspected.