Description
Leslie Ower, completed 1898. Large 2-storey red ashlar
Arts and Crafts house.
S elevation asymmetrical 3-bay, right bay advanced, 1-3-1
ground 1-4-1, light 1st floor window mock half-timbered
gable, 2 small windows with modern glazing. Ground floor
verandah to left, modern conservatory added at centre,
stained glass screen and slate roof with projecting eaves
also over advanced tripartite, at left. Single and bipartite
windows at 1st with gablet heads breaking eaves. Near
contemporary 1-storey W wing with canted bay and semi-
conical roof.
N and W elevations: steep swept gables, half-timbered at
attic level with bipartites, varied fenestration below.
Main entrance a timber porch in chamfered NW angle. Slightly
later W and E (service) wings. Stair window altered for
new outside stair and door to top flat.
Low 2-storey service wing at NE with piended dormers.
Windows mainly 9- or 12-pane upper sashes, single pane
lower. Gabled and piended red-tiled roofs with terracotta
finials. 4 prominent battered ashlar stacks.
Interior: original stair at 1st floor and attic survives.
Vestibule mosaic. Panelled hall ceiling, carved fireplaces.
Plaster cavetto ceilings in W wing (billiard room?).
Rubble-built boundary walls with cylindrical gatepiers
and conical caps.