Description
H E Clifford, architect. Built circa 1904. Large, 2-storey
suburban villa in arts and crafts manner. Stugged red ashlar
with polished dressings: mostly harled above ground floor:
some Timber framed gables. Deeply recessed rectangular door
in asymmetrical 3-bay south elevation, splayed reveals with roll-moulding and Tudor-arched doorway; canted and corbelled
oriel above linked at left to tall projecting stack; 2 small
rectangular lights in gabled left bay; 1st floor bipartite
above. West elevation: 4 irregular bays, 2 gabled, the left
with bowed projection; long, mullioned windows. East
elevation: triple-gabled, with roof swept at left (gabled
wing to right, long mullioned window to each floor, and
tall, mullioned and transomed stair window. Coped end and
axial stacks; slate roofs with deeply projecting eaves.
Interior: wooden panelled entrance hall and ground floor
front rooms: room to south has tall chimney piece with Dutch
tiles over fireplace and flanking painted and leaded glass
panels.
Stugged and snecked red ashlar gatepiers are corniced, with
domed caps. Garden wall has canted south west corner, with depressed-arched gateway.