Continuing along Silver Street Carlton House faces you on the first corner. A small mid-to-late 18th century Georgian house (perhaps originally a small farmhouse?), with a later extension to the left. The original section has a characteristic symmetrical Georgian design, with a central doorway and single windows to each side and a pair of windows above them on the first floor. The usual internal layout for houses of this kind is a door to a lobby or entrance hall and staircase and the main rooms to each side with a kitchen and other service rooms behind, and the bedrooms upstairs. The ground-floor windows have plaster imitation lintels. The absence of brick arches or stone lintels suggests that the windows were built with timber lintels behind the brickwork. The windows themselves are modern timber replacements but they retain the small-pane style of the original sash windows, which would have had 12 panes (3 panes wide) or 16 panes (4 panes wide). There is no central dummy window like those in some of the other Georgian and early Victorian houses in the village. However, the front here has a stylish feature in the form of a projecting first-floor brick band. This feature, designed to emphasise the clean classical lines of the frontage, is seen in a couple of other Georgian village houses (Sconer House in Barton Street and 15 Lords Lane). Here it is matched with a stepped brick cornice at the eaves. The moulded-profile gutter, uninterrupted by down-pipes, gives a perfect finishing touch to a simple and elegant frontage. The house is terraced into the sloping ground here (the valley-side of the Barrow Beck), so there is a stepped brick plinth at the base and three York Stone steps up to the front door. There is a Classical-style doorcase in a plain Roman Doric Order, with a later Victorian or Edwardian door with moulded panels. It’s likely that this door was fitted at the same time as other alterations were undertaken, most noticeably the addition of a two-storey extension to the left and the rebuilding of the chimney stacks. The later bricks, larger and smoother than the earlier Georgian ones, can be most clearly seen the left gable-end. The rear roof-pitch may also have been raised at the same time to give more space in the back rooms. The builders of the extension took the trouble to match the window size of the original frontage and even used the older thinner Georgian bricks to continue the first floor band, so that, with its painted frontage, the extension blends in very well. Small details like this make all the difference! Carlton House is in a prominent position facing down this section of Silver Street, so that the street itself seems like an entrance driveway. This may well have influenced the positioning and design of the house. Another, rather grander, example where a location like this is exploited for a stylish frontage is Banner House on a corner facing along Barton Street.