Greengate House

Greengate House is a town house dating primarily from the late 18th century, with elements from the early 18th century incorporated into its construction, and later extensions and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front facade is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, set upon a sandstone plinth, with painted stone doorcase and dressings and a timber eaves cornice. The rear features an early 18th-century wing of red brick, and a staircase wing constructed partly of rubble stone and partly of mottled brick. The roof is hipped and covered in slate, with brick stacks located at the base of the hips on either side, and a central ridge stack.

The house has a central entrance-hall plan, incorporating an earlier building as a central rear wing, a stairhall to the left rear, and a kitchen extension to the right rear. It is two storeys and an attic, and has a five-window front. A pedimented Doric doorcase, featuring detached columns, a fluted frieze and a dentilled cornice, leads to a half-glazed and panelled door beneath a semi-circular fanlight, accessed by two steps. The windows on the ground and first floors are single-pane sashes, while the attic windows are squat four-pane sashes, all with flat arches constructed of gauged brick. A raised first-floor band and first-floor sillband are present, and the attic windows have painted stone sills. A console cornice trims the projecting eaves, returning at each end.

The rear includes a gabled, two-storey, two-window early 18th-century wing in the centre, a two-storey, one-window staircase wing to the right, and a one-and-a-half-storey, one-window pent extension to the left. The central wing has single-pane sashes with painted stone sills beneath keyed flat arches of gauged brick. The staircase wing features a painted stone Venetian window extending the full height of the wing. Both wings are topped with coped gables and shaped kneelers. The early 18th-century wing has an M-section roof concealed behind a swept-up parapet.

The interior of the ground floor features an entrance hall with stone flags, an 18th-century moulded stone fireplace, and a moulded elliptical arch leading to the stairhall, which also has stone flags. The open-well, cantilevered staircase is constructed of stone stairs with shaped treadends, a cast-iron balustrade and a moulded handrail, wreathed at the foot. The stairhall contains a Corinthian order Venetian window, enriched with swags and flutes. The front rooms are decorated with 19th-century plasterwork. A room to the left has a 19th-century carved fireplace, while the room to the right has an early 20th-century fireplace. The rear centre room has a shallow niche with a keyed, elliptical arch on fluted pilasters and dentilled imposts. First-floor rooms to the right have 18th-century fireplaces, and a marble fireplace dating from around 1840 is located in the room to the left. The attics retain several plain 18th-century fireplaces and grates. Throughout the house, original 18th-century six-panel doors with brass door furniture are present. The front windows have panelled shutters, and the ground-floor rear centre room has boxed shutters dating from approximately 1840.