The Petch House With Attached Stone Steps And Wall To Right

The Petch House, now divided into two dwellings, was built in 1785 for John Petch, a lawyer. It features orange-red brick in Flemish bond on the front, set on a stone plinth, with a rendered rear and sandstone return fronts and extension. The house has ashlar dressings, a pantile roof, and stone stacks. It is designed with a central stairhall plan, is three storeys high, and has three bays with raised quoins.

The original door, which has six raised and fielded panels with transverse fluting in the margins, has been moved to the 20th-century extension on the left. The original door opening still features a Doric pedimented doorcase with engaged columns, but is now blocked by a 20th-century fixed light window with glazing bars. Throughout the building, there are 12-pane sash windows in raised, squared surrounds, first and second floor raised bands, and a moulded eaves cornice. The end stacks rise from a swept, hipped roof.

At the rear, there is a central half-glazed door beneath a blind patterned fanlight, set in an Ionic doorcase with an open pediment and a pulvinated frieze supported by part-fluted engaged columns. To the right, narrow two-storey pointed staircase windows feature Gothick glazing, and there is a three-storey canted bay at the end right.

Inside, a cut-string dogleg staircase from the 18th century is located at the rear of the hall, complete with turned balusters and shaped cheek-pieces. The hall is divided on the first and second floors by moulded elliptical arches on fluted pilasters. The original chimneypieces have been reset in the first-floor rooms on the left. At the end right, there is a short flight of stone steps leading up to a ramped orange-red brick wall in English garden wall bond, topped with stone coping and a pier.