Duke House — Duke Street

Detached two-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c. 1770, now used as a pre-school. Rectangular-plan, two-storey return to east, two-storey lean-to to north. Pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth, stepped parapet to west. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, tripartite timber sliding sash windows and timber tracery windows to south elevation of return, some earlier six-over-six sliding sash windows to south elevation. Round-headed door openings, painted tooled stone surround, open-bed triangular pediment on scroll console brackets, decorative petal fanlight, painted timber door with ten raised-and-fielded panels, accessed by three tooled limestone steps; segmental- and square-headed door openings to south elevation, painted timber sheeted doors, one with vertically-glazed overlight. House fronts directly onto street, carpark to south-east.