Alcombe Hall

Alcombe Hall is a late 18th-century house, now converted into apartments. It is constructed with a render over rubblestone, and has a double-pitch slate roof, hipped to the right with brick stacks in the right valley, rear right, and left party wall. The building is arranged on a double-depth central stairhall plan, with a long two-storey rear wing to the right, overlooking Brook Street. It is three storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. Two small 20th-century windows have been inserted into the upper floors. The second floor has 6/6-pane sash windows at eaves level, the first floor has 8/8-pane sashes, and the ground floor has 12/12-pane sashes. Above a decorated fanlight and double-panelled doors with raised and fielded panels is an open pediment supported by brackets. The rear range of the right return has one window on each floor, matching those at the front. The two-storey rear wing, in Brook Street, has a three-window range with 6/6-pane sash windows at eaves level. A plate-glass sash shop window is at ground-floor right, with a door and window to the left. A rubblestone lean-to has two 20th-century garage doors. The house closes the right end of a terrace, with Alcombe House closing the left end. Inside, the central hall has a moulded cornice and a six-panel door to the left. A semi-elliptical arch to the rear stairhall has reeded moulding and a panelled soffit. The open-well, open-string staircase has fretted ends and a swept and wreathed mahogany handrail. A ground-floor room, now divided, features a stiff-leaf cornice with an ornamented ceiling band, panelled shutters, and a late 19th-century white marble fire surround.