Turner House Art Galley

Turner House Art Gallery is a building constructed from red brick, featuring moulded brick string courses and a dentil cornice, with red sandstone detailing in an Italianate early Renaissance style. The roof is red tiled and has a longitudinal light. The central bay projects and includes an arched design with a plain semi-circular panel that has the painted inscription 'Turner House Gallery'. Above this is a pediment adorned with a grotesque face and swags in the tympanum. The arch piers are flanked by paired pilasters that support candelabrum reliefs, symbolizing Ruskin's 'lamp of truth'. The piers also support dolphins at the angles of the arch. On the first floor, there are panels to the left and right of the arch, which were formerly decorated with sgraffito work. The ground floor features a large multi-pane window between the piers. To the left of the central bay is a moulded brick doorcase, which was formerly a window, leading to six-panelled double doors. To the right, there is a moulded brick architrave above a mullioned and transomed window with a painted surround.

The left elevation has two multi-pane windows on the first floor, set in shallow moulded brick architraves, and two small lunette windows with keystones on the ground floor. A modern single-storey extension is also present. The right elevation has no openings, but features first-floor corbelled pilasters separated by panelled decoration in moulded brick, which indicates where a chimney breast was located before the chimney was removed.

At the rear, on the first floor to the left, there is a corbelled multi-pane rectangular bay window with four lights, the upper lights of which have marginal glazing. The ground floor has blocked windows.

The interior arrangement dates from the late 1940s, having previously been used as a gallery on the upper floor and living accommodation on the ground floor. The entrance hall features a wooden staircase. To the left is a custodians room located in the modern extension. To the right of the staircase is the lower gallery, which has been modernised. The upper gallery acts as a continuous balcony to the lower gallery and features a 1940s wrought iron balustrade. The open roof consists of five bays and includes a Renaissance style frieze around the roof light. To the north, there are two Renaissance style doorcases with scrolled pediments and swags, along with a recess between them.