Cygnet House

House, early C19, attached to an early to mid-C18 rear range, altered in the C19 and C20.

MATERIALS: hand-made brick, clay pantile roofs.

PLAN: reverse S-plan, comprising front range facing south-east onto the street, with rear wing to the north-west with its own south-west extension.

EXTERIOR: facing south-east onto Church Lane. The two-storey, three-bay front wall is asymmetrical, with wider bays to the left, and is in Flemish Garden Wall bond brickwork. The entrance at the right is in a squared stone surround with chamfered jambs and prominent moulded cornice and has a recessed four-panelled door with plain fanlight. To the left are two windows, with three more stacked above the ground-floor openings. All the windows are vertical sashes with moulded cases, horns and no glazing bars, with stone wedge lintels and projecting sills.

The south-west gable has an outer skin of reclaimed historic bricks and is obscured at the ground floor by an attached range, and blind above this with a corbelled ridge chimney stack.

The north-east gable is also blind, and rendered with a corner buttress and a step below the eaves indicating a building was formerly attached here. At the first floor is a painted terracotta plaque featuring decorative tracery, which is inscribed: COMMUNITY - EDUCATION. The front pitch of the roof has a coped gable with a kneeler, while the rear pitch is uncoped and falls to lower rear eaves. Set back at the right, the north-east wall of the rear range has a pair of four-pane sash windows to each floor, and a modern part-glazed panelled door with a rectangular fanlight to the right; all beneath segmental, rubbed-brick lintels. A duo-pitched roof connects the rear roof of the front range to this gabled range, which has a ridge stack slightly to the left of centre, and sprocketed eaves.

The rear wall is stepped with mixed fenestration including vertically and horizontally-sliding sash windows, and catslide roofs. The south-west elevation is obscured.