Talbot House

Talbot House, located on the west side of Queen Street, is a mid-to-late 18th-century building with alterations from the early 19th century. Originally two separate houses, it is constructed of painted brick with a basement and stands three storeys tall. The central section features bands between the floors and a wooden entablature with a triglyph frieze. It has a low-pitched gable-ended slate roof, with four windows on the second floor, featuring flush-framed sash windows with intact glazing bars. A large first-floor bow window, below the two leftmost windows, has tripartite glazing bar sash lights, a wood entablature, and a triglyph frieze. A similar two-storey and basement bow window extends to the right.

To the left of the main building is a yard entrance originally altered and with a built-in door of six panels, four of which are glazed, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight. This is accessed through a Greek Doric porch with fluted columns and entablature. The left extension is of matching brickwork, incorporating a bracketed frieze and cornice with a pantile roof. It has two windows with flush-framed glazing bars to the upper floors and a ground-floor bow window with tripartite glazing bar sash lights, a moulded and dentilated cornice and iron anthemion cresting. A plain door is set within an arched opening to the left.

The right-hand extension mirrors the entablature of the main block but with dentils to its cornice. It features three windows on the third floor, with intact sash windows and glazing bars, a single sash window above the front door on the first floor, and a two-storey large canted bay with pilasters and moulded cornices to the ground and first floors. The front door consists of six fielded panels with a semi-circular fanlight within a panelled reveal and a painted doorcase similar to that found at numbers 5 and 7 Queen Street, featuring engaged Corinthian columns, a broken entablature with flat relief vases on each face, and an open pediment above.

The interior of the building has undergone significant alterations, although the staircase of the original end house remains. It features an open string with broad treads, shaped brackets, three close-set turned balusters per tread, a swept moulded handrail that curves at the bottom of the flight, and a panelled dado to the wall.

Talbot House forms a group with numbers 5 to 13 Queen Street.