Stanwix House

Stanwix House is a house that is now part of a college, built in the early 19th century for Richard Lowry, an attorney. The building features Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, set on a chamfered plinth with dressings of calciferous sandstone that are partly painted. It has V-jointed quoins and a sill band, topped by a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate, with the rear covered in 20th-century tiles and gable brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high with five symmetrical bays of double span, including a central passage and a lower three-bay extension on the right. The central entrance has a panelled door and a radial fanlight within a prostyle Doric porch. There are flanking wooden canted bay windows with glazing bars, which are later additions. Above, there are sash windows with glazing bars set in brick reveals and flat brick arches. The extension, likely added for servants or stables, now features glazed doors and sash windows. A further stair projection on the right return is a 20th-century addition.

Inside, the house has panelled doors with fluted architraves, moulded plaster ceiling cornices, and a pilastered alcove in the main ground floor room. The hall features fluted pilaster arches with panelled soffits. The left stair has simple squared balusters and a moulded mahogany handrail. Some fireplaces have fluted surrounds, and there are panelled shutters in some rooms. The details of the brickwork suggest that the rear span was built at the same time as the front. Although a previous listing suggested a date of around 1794, there is no evidence to confirm this. The house is located on the site of the Stanwix Roman Fort. The original entrance to the drive was on Brampton Road, and while the house faces that road, it is now accessed from Church Street.