27 and 27a, The Mount

This house, now divided into two flats, dates from around 1860. It is built of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, sitting on a roll-moulded plinth. The roof is steeply pitched, featuring contrasting bands of orange-red and blue-black fishscale tiles, with valanced eaves and pierced/scalloped bargeboards to the crossgables. There are cruciform ridge stacks to the rear wings.

The building consists of a two-bay front with a single storey and attic, and a two-storey, cross-gabled bay to the right. A shallow, projecting gabled porch is centrally located, topped with a roll-moulded finial. The doorway is pointed and double-chamfered, sheltered by a hoodmould resting on foliate corbel stops, and has a pointed door with elaborate wrought iron hinges. To the left of the porch are two single-light windows; to the right, a five-light square bay window with a boldly carved foliate frieze and moulded cornice. The gabled attic window to the left is a half-dormer with a single-light window recessed beneath a pointed arch of voussoirs, finished with a roll-moulded sillband featuring foliate stops. The cross-gabled bay to the right has a first-floor window of two lights beneath a pointed relieving arch, with a sunk trefoil moulding. In the gable apex, the attic window is pointed, also with a roll-moulded sillband and foliate stops.

The left-hand return elevation has a one-storey and attic section, with a two-bay front and a two-storey, cross-gabled bay to the right. A single-light window is at ground floor level in the left bay; a two-light window is in the centre; and to the right, a four-light canted bay with a frieze and cornice matching the main front bay. The attic window to the left is a gabled half-dormer of two lights. The right-hand bay features a two-light first floor window beneath a pointed relieving arch, with a sunk trefoil moulding. Most windows are trefoil-headed, and all openings and window mullions have a hollow-chamfered profile.