Corunna House, 42 and 44 Ousegate

Town House, early-C18 with possible earlier origins, altered in the C19 and C20.

MATERIALS: fair-faced brown clamp bricks, pantile roofs (with lead flat to main range), timber windows.

PLAN: principal range aligned north-west to south-east (fronting Ousegate), with attached rear ranges.

EXTERIOR: the two storey, eight-bay main facade breaks forwards in bays 3 and 6 (and bay 5 at ground-floor), and has painted rusticated brick quoins, low semi-ovolo moulded plinth and moulded wooden eaves cornice supported by cut brackets. Entrance in bay 3 and basket-arched carriage entry in bays 5 and 6 (with shouldered timber gates topped with iron spikes). The doorway is approached by three ashlar steps and has a shell hood on richly moulded acanthus consoles, with drop finials and an acanthus moulded architrave to the hood. Door with six fielded panels and an oblong eight-pane fanlight.

Windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and rubbed-brick lintels (lower two right-hand windows reinstated in rebuilt brickwork after removal of C20 shopfront). Some have later bullseye panes. Hipped roof with visible rear stacks, and lead flat to left half of ridge. Small dormer to number 42; lead eaves gutter has cast-iron downpipes at either end.

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