Warner House - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The Warner House NE. cor. Chapel and Daniels Sts., a three-story five-bay house, with a gambrel roof pierced by five dormers, is built of brick, with one end faced with wood siding. The house, surrounded by a plain wooden fence with sturdy square posts, is entered through a doorway designed with a segmental pediment supported by richly carved Corinthian pilasters. The light above the door contains bull's-eye glass. The broad expanse of the facade is broken at the second story by a belt course, with a similar one on the gable ends, connecting the front and rear cornice. The dormer windows have alternate pointed and segmental pediments. At the break in the gambrel is a finely turned balustrade connecting the chimneys and enclosing an octagonal cupola.

A central hallway contains Murals by unknown artists, representing Governor Phipps on horseback; a woman spinning, her work interrupted by a hawk lighting among the chickens; and a Biblical scene of Abraham offering up Isaac. On either side of the window on the stair landing are life-size figures of Indians, supposedly portraits of aborigines with whom the owner traded.

The rooms of the house are crudely paneled, those to the right of the hall having a corner fireplace. The bricks are said to have come from Holland. The lightning rod was added by Benjamin Franklin.

The oldest brick house in Portsmouth, it was built in 1718 at a cost of 6000 by Captain McPhaedris, a native of Scotland and a member of the King's Council. The Captain's daughter Mary married the Hon. Jonathan Warner. At the time of its building, this house was surpassed byfew private residences in New England. It is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of the Warner House. - New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State, Portsmouth section, pgs. 237-238

The house is very much as described in the guide.  It continues to serve as museum.  For more information about the house and tours see the home's website.