Cromwell House

Cromwell House is a large, three-storey terraced house dating from the late 18th century. The external facade is painted stucco with a slate roof, and the brick end stacks were removed in 1981. The house has moulded dentilled eaves, a plinth, and angle pilasters echoing those found on the neighbouring properties at numbers 2 and 3. Two sill courses project over the pilasters, which have moulded capitals and a moulded course below the friezes. The upper floor windows have moulded architraves, and the ground floor windows have hoodmoulds. The windows are plate-glass sashes, arranged in four bays. The central doorway, in the third bay, has a stuccoed pediment supported by consoles, above a recessed six-panel door with a three-pane overlight. A rubble stone wall is visible within the former brewery throughway. A long rear wing has been extensively altered in the late 20th century into residential units; this section comprises three storeys and three bays, followed by two two-storey houses, with a stone stack at the end of the three-storey range.

The entrance passage leads to a larger room on the east side of the house and a smaller room to the west. The east room features panelled shutters and a finely moulded late Georgian cornice with undercut classical leaf detail, as well as a ceiling border with rosettes. A fireplace from the early 19th century contains grey marble with roundels to the top corners. The right-hand room has been altered. A four-panel door with fielded panels leads from the west room to the rear staircase. This staircase has thick, square balusters, scrolled tread ends, and a handrail that ramps up to square newels. Six-panel doors with fielded panels are found throughout the house, along with fielded-panelled shutters. There are 19th-century fireplaces throughout. Four-panel fielded-panelled doors provide access to the attic. A cellar lies beneath the front of the house, featuring four heavy, chamfered beams. The rear southwest part of the cellar contains an 18th-century shallow brick vault and arched storage bins to the west. It is believed that another parallel cellar exists to the right.