Description
Dated 1868. Large Italianate villa, ashlar with polished
dressings and quoins. Most margined windows with moulded
stilted segmental-heads and small keystones. Continuous
1st floor cill course, bracketted eaves.
E elevation: near centre bay advanced with wide Doric
columned and square piered porch. Triglyph entablature.
Consoled pedimented doorpiece. Bipartite over. 3 bays to
each side, 1- and 2-lights to right, 2 single windows to left
flanking ground floor scalloped niche and 1st floor dated
armorial.
S elevation: 5 bay, end bays advanced with canted ground
floor and tripartite 1st floor windows. 3 ground floor
consoled corniced and aproned windows at centre.
W elevation: 6-bay, 3 at left recessed. Right canted bay,
bipartite over, twin corniced round-headed lights. 2
windows altered to doors.
Rear, single storey, heightened to 2. Round-headed dormers
break eaves to E and W, gabletted to N.
Wallhead and ridge stacks with 2, 3 and 4 square shafts
and bracketted cornices. Piended slate roofs. Later small
dormers.
Sash and case windows, 2-pane glazing pattern.
INTERIOR: tiled vestibule. Fine plaster ceilings with
original paintwork and gliding in principal ground floor
rooms. Ornate timber stair, 3-light stained glass window
with putti. 1st floor partitioned. Most fireplaces removed.
LODGE: similarly detailed masonry, L-plan with porch
re-entrant angle on banded square piers. Round-headed
bipartites to street, canted bays to W and S. Bracketted
eaves, square shafted stack, piended roof. Sash and case
windows. Low boundary walls and altered gatepiers.