Cathedral Green House

Cathedral Green House is a house in a row, dating back to the 17th century or earlier, and significantly remodelled in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is constructed with a rendered and colourwashed exterior, a Welsh slate roof, and brick chimney stacks. The building has a rectangular plan with its roof parallel to the street. A stone newel staircase is located at the rear, and a rear right wing creates an L-shaped layout. The thickness of the rear wall to the right suggests an earlier structure on the site.

The front elevation is two storeys high with attics, featuring two wide bays. It has sash windows with raised and moulded timber architraves. Three 20th-century segmental-roofed dormers are present, each with a two-light, small-pane casement window behind a parapet. The first floor has two 16-pane sash windows, and the ground floor has 20-pane sashes. A central entrance is accessed through a 20th-century porch constructed from 18th-century materials, incorporating Doric columns supporting a partial entablature with triglyphs and an open pediment. This frames a pair of three-panel doors topped with a semicircular cast-iron fanlight with decorative radial glazing, purportedly originating from Dublin, with the columns themselves reportedly from a convent. Glazed cheeks flank the doors. Stacks are situated to the left.

The rear elevation includes a single three-light ovolo-mullioned window. Below this, the jambs of two stop-chamfered windows are visible, alongside traces of other former windows.

The interior contains additional columns and a dado said to be from a Bristol bank. The north-east ground-floor room features an 18th-century ceiling cornice and panelling, alongside a bolection-mould fireplace with a later cast-iron insert. The north-west room has early 18th-century dado panels, chamfered ceiling beams, and two wall niches—one flat-headed and one semicircular arched—with shaped shelves.

The south-west room exhibits a crossbeam with chamfer, bead stop, and run-out stops, and a four-centre arched opening in the rear wall. The main staircase, dating back to approximately 1800, has alternating chamfer stick and barley-sugar twist balusters. The north-west first-floor room features a three-panel door, dado rail, and a heavily moulded plaster ceiling with central wreath ornamentation. All front windows have functional shutters.

At the rear, a stone newel staircase leads upwards, with a six-panel door at the foot. There is some 17th-century panelling, although it’s not in its original location. An early 17th-century balustrade is at the top, featuring alternating turned and plank balusters, turned newels with knobs. It's noted that some materials within the house were imported by a previous owner who was an antiques dealer.

Substantial boundary railings, set on a low stone plinth, extend from the front elevation corners, approximately 5 metres from the house. These railings have necked tops, and the standards are topped with cast-iron urn finials. A wrought-iron overthrow is positioned over the gateway, opposite the porch. These features contribute to the overall setting of the house and the streetscape.

The property adjoins and was formerly part of Nos 21 and 23, Market Place.