Barton House

Barton House is a house in a row that includes a café, built around the 1870s. It features English bond brickwork with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a basement, with three windows across the front. The second and ground floors have plain sash windows, while the first floor has French doors beneath transom lights, sheltered by a Regency-style tent hood supported by wrought-iron brackets leading to a decorative balcony. This balcony is held up by seven cast-iron brackets. The windows are set under shouldered lintels with dog-tooth moulding, and the alternating quoins are flush with deep chamfered cills. There is basement access on the left side, and on the right, a pair of three-panel fielded doors sits under a segmental pointed arch with brick voussoirs above internal glazed doors. The left gable has a stack, and the building features raised coped verges and a full-width raised paved area. At the back, there is a half-hipped two-bay wing with four-pane sashes above flat-roofed canted bays that have plain sashes. Another stack is located at the eaves. The design is vigorous, with a vertical scale that contrasts with the adjoining buildings at Nos 6 and 9, while also contributing to the continuity of the street.