Number 40 And Entrance To Unitarian Chapel

Number 40, originally built around 1777 as a parsonage for Unitarians, is now a shop. The building features coursed, squared rubble and has a moulded wooden eaves cornice. It has a graduated slate roof with two stone chimneys and stands three storeys high with four bays. The shop front is framed by a corniced wooden surround with fluted pilasters, and there is a 20th-century glazed double door on the left. On the right, a large semicircular-headed arch provides access to the Unitarian Chapel at the rear. The passage has ornate wrought-iron double gates with scroll decoration and cast-iron fleurs-de-lis finials on the lock rail and curved top rail. Inside the passage, there is a moulded rubbing strip on the side walls and a panelled door leading up steps on the north side. Each upper floor has four sash windows. A rear staircase, which projects and is elliptical in plan, features a semicircular-headed stair window with interlaced glazing bars.