Compton House

Compton House is an end-terrace house and shop built from red brick laid in Flemish bond, featuring bricks of a different shade on the added top floor. The building has a slate roof that is hipped at an angle, with a red brick stack located at the left end. The eaves are adorned with dentilled brickwork. The structure consists of three storeys and three narrow bays, with the top floor dating from around 1900, showcasing three cambered-headed 6-pane sash windows with brick voussoirs. There is a remnant of an 18th-century band at the sill level. The first floor retains original 18th-century brickwork, featuring three cambered-headed 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills. The name 'Compton House' is painted above the windows.

The shop front, which dates from the late 19th to early 20th century, spans the full width of the building and includes a recessed entry situated between windows, each composed of three long plate glass lights, with one canted into the entry. The outer piers are embellished with large console brackets that frame the fascia and cornice, and there are glazed doors.

On the right side facing Kerry Street, the building has a brick plinth and two original raised bands. The ground floor features two blocked cambered-headed openings. Above these is a band of two raised courses separated by a flush course, which is incomplete as the lower course ends before the midpoint. The first floor has two cambered-headed windows located in the middle and right, each fitted with a pair of small-paned iron casements and an iron opening light. There is a band at the sill level beneath the added top floor, which includes a 4-pane cambered-headed sash window on the right.

The ground floor shop has been modernised, and the stopped and chamfered beam noted in 1983 has been covered over. There is a narrow enclosed southeast stair leading to the first floor, which contains a single principal northwest room featuring two relatively thin stopped and chamfered beams aligned on an east-west axis. An old door leads into a small northeast room. An oak winding stair ascends to the attic, where a timber-framed internal wall is visible along the east side, and a timber-framed truss is built into the partition of the southwest room, indicating that the roof has been raised. The attic also has heavy purlins and two oak plank doors with iron strap hinges, one of which has cover strips. A window in the attic bears an engraved signature that appears to read 'R. Brapcton'.