Kincora And Attached Railings

House. Early 18th century with a late 19th century wing to the right and a 17th century wing to the rear right of the main house.

The house is built of coursed limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone plinth and dressings. The roof is slate with stepped stone coping and brick stacks to the gable ends. The plan follows a 2-unit central-staircase arrangement with an older rear wing to the right.

The exterior has 2 storeys with an attic and basement. The front elevation is symmetrical with a 5-window range. There are 3 roof dormers; those to the sides have pedimented gables, while the central one has a segmental arch to the gable. A moulded cornice steps forward above rusticated pilasters and returns to the sides. All windows are late 19th century horned 2/2-pane sashes in moulded architraves. The 8-panel door has panelled reveals and is set in a moulded architrave with a pediment on consoles. The basement to the right has a 3-light window with hollow-moulded stone mullions; the window to the right is missing.

A 2-storey, 2-window range mid-19th century extension fills the space between this house and No.5. It has stone slate lower courses to the roof and 20th century two-light casements to the first floor. An ashlar canted bay with an off-set stone roof and a 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window projects from the front. To its right is a pointed-arch door with overlight, and to the far right a carriage entrance of the same height with a shallow pointed arch. A platband runs from the right to the eaves of the bay.

The rear of the house has an early 19th century round-arched margin-pane stair window to the left, a small pointed-arch window to the centre, and a 2-light stone-mullioned window to the right on the first floor. The ground-floor wall was probably rebuilt in the early 19th century, when elliptical arches were constructed. It retains the original 2-light stone-mullioned window to the right and a planked and studded door in a Tudor arch with sunk spandrels to the left. The rear extension is 2 storeys with a 2-window range, 20th century windows and door under wooden lintels.

The interior is essentially early 18th century with raised-and-fielded panelling and high dado rails; later fireplaces have been inserted. The diagonally-laid stone-flagged hall has an open-well, open-string oak staircase with 3 turned balusters to each tread, fretted ends, and an oak handrail swept to the top and wreathed at the foot with the curtail step. The hall is panelled below the dado rail and has moulded architraves to 6-panel doors.

The room to the left has oak floorboards, a box cornice, and is entirely panelled including the shutters. An early 19th century deep elliptical-arched recess in the rear wall reuses the original panelling with similar panelling in the soffit and a reeded architrave; a 20th century fireplace is installed. The room to the right is simpler, with a dado rail, cyma-moulded cornice, an early 19th century elliptical arch to the rear, a late 19th century fireplace and an inserted Spanish wall cupboard to the left.

The landing on the first floor is panelled to an egg-and-dart cornice. The roof of the main house is 5 bays with a ridge purlin in notched apex, trenched purlins and pegged collars. Access to the attic of the late 17th century, 3-bay rear wing is through a 17th century panelled door. It has been re-roofed, probably in the early 19th century, and retains part of a horizontal planked partition and closing latches to a door jamb.

The cellar, which extends under the rear wing and towards the front, has stone steps and floor with a drainage channel to the centre. It has a segmental barrel vault; the rear end has a 17th century moulded cornice and ribs forming a star-shape.

Spearhead railings with urn finials and scroll supports on a Ham Hill stone plinth enclose the forecourt. The house is one of a group of 3 early 18th century town houses in Church Street.