house — Bank Lane

Detached five-bay three-storey house, occupied 1911, on a chamfered square plan including two-bay three-storey (south) or two-bay three-storey (east) elevations centred on single-bay three-storey elevation (south-east). Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a chamfered L-shaped plan behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls (ground floor) on rendered chamfered plinth with moulded rendered cornice on frieze on stringcourse; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (upper floors) with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting moulded rendered cornice on frieze on stringcourse below iron-covered parapet centred on scroll-topped panel. Pseudo three-centre headed openings centred on segmental-headed opening (ground floor) with moulded rendered sill course, and rendered surrounds with panelled pilasters supporting moulded archivolts. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with moulded rendered sill course, and rendered surrounds with panelled pilasters supporting hood mouldings on fluted consoles framing boarded-up one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings (top floor) with moulded rendered sill course, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash window. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.