49, East Street

This is an early or mid-18th century house, with some alterations to the front in the late 19th century. The house has timber-framed walls at the front and back, and within the rear wing; the front is rendered, while the rear is slate-hung. The other walls are of solid stone rubble. The slate roof is parallel to the street with hipped ends, and the two rear roof sections are at right angles, also hipped. Rendered chimneys are located at each end of the front range.

The house has two main rooms, with a centre entrance passage that opens into a stair-hall extending behind the room on the left. A rear room on the right projects on both the ground and first floors, creating a short wing. The building is three storeys high, with a basement. The front has a symmetrical arrangement of two windows, with a central doorway featuring wood pilasters and a cornice hood supported by deeply projecting scrolled brackets. The door itself has four molded panels above and four flush panels arranged in a St Andrew's Cross pattern below. The ground floor windows are triple-sash, with small panes in the upper sashes. The second floor has canted bay windows with pilasters and a bracketed top cornice, also with small-paned sashes. The third floor has sash windows with eight panes.

The rear elevation has a window with eight-paned Yorkshire sashes. The ground floor of the rear wing includes an early or mid-18th century three-light mullioned window. A plank rear door, with strap hinges, has six panels on the inside and a deep coved canopy above.

The interior's most notable feature is the wooden open-well staircase that rises to the second floor. It has cut strings, shaped step-ends, turned balusters (three to a tread) with square necking pieces, and a ramped handrail over fluted column newels, voluted at the foot of the staircase. A plainer balustrade and gate are located at the head of the basement steps. The dado features raised-and-fielded ovolo-moulded panels as far as the first floor. Original panelled doors are present throughout the house, except in the left-hand front ground floor room. There are original brass or iron locks on some doors. Chimney pieces are present in all rooms, except the small rear room on the second floor. The ground floor rear room’s fireplace has a beaded surround with a moulded cornice, while the first floor room above has an eared architrave and moulded cornice. The front room on the ground floor has a plain dado with a fluted rail, whereas the first floor room above has a moulded cornice enriched with eight scallop shells. The basement includes a segmental-headed fireplace in the right-hand front room, a stud partition with horizontal planking, a plank door with strap hinges, and a cobbled floor. The roofs are kingpost-and-ridge construction.