Allonby House

Allonby House is a private residence that was originally built as sea-water baths and an assembly room in 1835. The building features painted stucco and rusticated ashlar, with angle pilasters, a string course, and a heavily-moulded cornice set on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated slate roof with cement rendered chimney stacks and consists of two storeys with five bays. The central three bays are framed by a two-storey tetrastyle Ionic portico in antis, which includes top-glazed double doors in a pilastered surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars set in plain reveals. At the rear, there is a glazed 20th-century veranda beneath a scrolled wrought-iron balcony, with upper-floor French windows featuring margin lights in pilastered surrounds. According to Mannix & Whellan's Directory from 1847, a suite of hot, cold, and vapour baths was established in 1835 at a cost of £1,800, funded by shares. The building also housed news and assembly rooms, supported by subscriptions. There is a lean-to outbuilding at the right front, which is not of interest.