Paddock House

Paddock House is a house dating to around 1810, with an addition made in the mid to late 19th century. It now serves as a boarding house and music school, part of the King's School. The building is constructed of brick with stone detailing, topped by a hipped slate roof and brick stacks.

The main block is a double-depth design, featuring a full-height, bow-fronted wing at the rear. To the east side is a long, lower range, now the music school. Adjacent to the left is No.5 Pitt Street, which is also part of the school house.

The front facade of the main block is two storeys high, with a cellar and attic. It has six bays, featuring a brick plinth and a stone crowning cornice with close-set modillions and a blocking course. The ground floor has a recessed doorway in the second bay from the left, with a semicircular arched fanlight containing radiating bars, and a fielded six-panel door, set within a stone doorcase with panelled pilasters, dosserets and an open pediment. The other ground floor bays contain five sash windows. The first floor has six similar sash windows, and the attic floor (behind a parapet) features six short sashes. All windows are in openings with rubbed brick, flat-arched heads and projecting stone sills.

The rear wing has a two-storey bow front with stone string courses and a brick parapet, with three tall sashes on each floor, containing glazing bars (3x5 panes) within flat-arched heads of five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills. A hipped projection, to the right of the wing, has a pair of casements and small casements on the first and attic floors respectively.

The mid-19th century lateral range, now the music school, is single-storey with seven bays. A doorway with a rectangular fanlight is in the left-hand bay, and the other bays contain six sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes). A rear wing extending to the right has a polygonal end with similar sashes.

Inside, the main block includes an entrance hall with an arched doorway leading to a large, central stairwell with a domed skylight above an open-well staircase featuring an open string, shaped tread-end brackets, stick balusters and a swept handrail. Principal rooms on both floors retain original joinery, including doorcases with reeded architraves and paterae on corner stops, six-panel doors, dado rails and enriched cornices. A large room in the rear wing has an apsidal end. A brick vaulted cellar is also present.