Description
A Marshall Mackenzie, 1896. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan villa. Rough-faced coursed pink granite ashlar with pale grey dressings, finely finished to NW elevation; granite rubble to remainder. Ground and 1st floor cill course; long and short rusticated quoins; eaves course and cornice.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; decorative doorpiece to pedimented centre bay at ground floor, Tuscan columns supporting rusticated entablature and cornice, round-arched doorway with rusticated voussoirs, fluted panels flanking panelled timber door, decorative fanlight with dentil moulded cornice around; tripartite windows to flanking bays to left and right at basement and ground floors, modern railings enclosing basement; regular fenestration to 1st floor.
SW ELEVATION: gabled; flat-roofed addition to ground floor, window to centre of 1st floor above, single window off-centre to left set in gablehead.
SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; full basement floor; near-regular fenestration to all floors, with windows to right slightly broader, and windows to centre bay off-centre to left; 2 canted dormers to attic floor.
NE ELEVATION: gabled; link to 55 Queen's Road at basement and ground floors, with doorway to left return; barred openings to centre bays above, small window off-centre to right in gablehead.
Predominantly timber casement windows, plate glass central panes, 2-pane lower and small-pane uppers. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Corniced gablehead stacks and coped wallhead stack to rear, octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: elaborate interior; majority of mouldings, architraves, some panelled doors, cornices and fire surrounds survive. 2-leaf glazed inner door; elaborately panelled hallway with decorative ceiling mouldings, fire surround; fine staircase with fretwork and turned balusters.
GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: corniced square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent properties); low coped walls between, surmounted by railings (later addition); granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.