Orielton House

Orielton House is a terraced house, dating from the later 19th century and paired with number 72. It is painted stucco with a slate roof, featuring projecting, moulded eaves and brick end chimneys. The house has a basement and three storeys, originally designed with a two-window front. A channelled pier is visible on the left and upper right, indicating that the house was built upwards from the end wall of the earlier Beech House (number 76). The windows are later 19th-century sashes with marginal glazing bars; those on the top floor are shorter than the full-length first-floor windows, which have later 19th-century cornices supported on consoles, and cast-iron flower balconies with corner iron finials. Tooled grey stone sills and stucco string courses are present. The ground floor has a large, later 19th-century tripartite sash window to the right, with a matching cornice and stone sill. To the left, a flight of four broad stone steps, three of sandstone, leads to a stone platform with a columned porch, followed by two further steps to a recessed doorway. The three-panel door features fielded lower panels and an iron hand-and-wreath knocker. An overlight is inscribed with the words 'Orielton House'. The steps are made of grey limestone or sandstone and are bordered by low grey stone side walls with gabled coping. The porch sits on a grey stone platform and features two tall, thin painted columns made of tooled grey limestone, similar to those on numbers 86 and 111, with moulded caps and bases, a shallow frieze and cornice, and a panelled soffit. The basement on the right side of the house is faced with grey hammer-dressed squared limestone, with a broad basement door. Above the doorhead is a plinth of tooled grey stone with a cambered arch over the basement entry, now infilled with a 20th-century door and window.

A three-storey rear wing has a hipped roof to the northwest. A French window is present on the north side of the ground floor, and a large sash window with marginal glazing bars occupies two upper floors. The first-floor window has a cast-iron flower balcony similar to those on the front range. A short, gabled wing to the northeast contains the staircase, with a curved landing window on the corner.

Inside, a passage leads from the entrance hall to the left to a large stair hall to the right, behind the front room. The front room contains a later 19th-century five-panel hardwood door, a dark grey marble fireplace, and a sideboard recess with panelled pilasters. The stair hall shows later 19th-century alterations, likely involving the incorporation of a small rear room. An earlier 19th-century chimneypiece is present, featuring a reeded surround and square rosettes at the angles, along with a good cast-iron grate. A five-panel door leads to the rear kitchen wing. The later 19th-century staircase has twisted balusters and scrolled tread ends, with a moulded rail, scrolled at the foot, and a curved design rising in four flights. A first-floor front room displays mid to late 19th-century character, featuring a ceiling rose with leaf-spray ornament and a grey marble chimneypiece. Other rooms have five-panel doors. A sloping roof-light illuminates the stairwell.

The basement beneath the front of the house is said to have been a shop. A small, arched roughcast stone vault to the rear right is more likely to be late 18th century than medieval in origin.