Shotley Villa Shotley Villa East Shotley Villa West

Shotley Villa, Shotley Villa East, and Shotley Villa West are a group of three houses, originally two, dated 1855 as shown on a central plaque. The construction is of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof, with stone roofs over canted bays. The villas are built in a Tudor style. The arrangement is of two wide, projecting outer bays with corner pilasters, and narrower projecting inner bays, all set under gables. A high plinth runs around the base, with a ground-level band. Each house has steps with round-coped walls leading up to a central, many-panelled door and a Tudor-arched overlight, set in a chamfered, Tudor-arched stone surround, with a scroll-bracketed hood. The windows are 4-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds, except for the ground-floor outer canted bay windows, which have low-pitched hipped roofs. Label moulds feature above the windows, and a corbel table runs over these, as well as over the centre of the block, which contains a round-headed, curved niche in a plain stone surround, with a shield above inscribed "SHOTLEY VILLA 1855". A statue of an angel holding a shield is positioned within the niche. The gables have bargeboards over the end bays and gablets over the inner bays, finished with tall spike finials on shafts with ball pendants; a similar design is present on the return gables. Roll-moulded stone chimney stacks are on each return and in the centre, with two tall castellated yellow pots at the ends and eight in the centre. A gabled porch is on the left return. A 20th-century rear addition, built in a similar style, is not considered to be of architectural interest.