Corunna House, 42 and 44 Ousegate

Corunna House, located at 42 and 44 Ousegate, is a town house dating from the early 18th century, with possible earlier origins. It has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is constructed of fair-faced brown clamp bricks and features pantile roofs, with a lead flat roof over the main range and timber windows. The principal range is aligned north-west to south-east, facing Ousegate, and has attached rear ranges.

The two-storey main facade has eight bays and features a forward projection in bays 3 and 6, as well as bay 5 at the ground floor. It is adorned with painted rusticated brick quoins, a low semi-ovolo moulded plinth, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice supported by cut brackets. The entrance is located in bay 3, and there is a basket-arched carriage entry in bays 5 and 6, which has shouldered timber gates topped with iron spikes. The doorway is approached by three ashlar steps and is topped with a shell hood supported by richly moulded acanthus consoles, featuring drop finials and an acanthus moulded architrave. The door itself has six fielded panels and an oblong eight-pane fanlight.

The windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and rubbed-brick lintels. The lower two right-hand windows have been reinstated in rebuilt brickwork after the removal of a 20th-century shopfront, and some windows feature later bullseye panes. The hipped roof has visible rear stacks and a lead flat roof on the left half of the ridge. Number 42 has a small dormer, and the lead eaves gutter has cast-iron downpipes at either end.

A passageway provides access to the rear, which features similar eaves details between numbers 44 and 42. The rear wall of number 42 is rendered brick and displays projecting Gothic initials 'R T' in the gable, along with a small eaves window and a first-floor 12-pane Yorkshire sash. The ridge has two chimney stacks positioned close behind the ridge of the front range. Number 44 includes a large hipped, flat-roofed rear wing beneath the lead flat and has two similar chimney stacks on the west side of the flat and one on the east side.