Trafford House

A pair of Italianate villas, dating from around 1850. The buildings are constructed of rendered brick with stone dressings, featuring hipped grey slate roofs. They were converted into flats with alterations in the mid-20th century.

The basement fronts onto the Dee, north. The villas are two storeys and an attic in height, with four bays plus a later added short bay to the right. They have a plinth and round-arched openings to the ground floor, rectangular openings to the first floor, all within Classical surrounds. Porches are located in the corners, featuring incised parallel-sided pilasters with key-pattern detailing at their heads. The side arch to number 3, on the right, is partially obscured by a later wing. The windows are mostly tripartite sashes, now with two panes per sash. A lower arris moulded band runs along the first floor, below four 8-pane cross-casements. There is a frieze and a broad corniced boxed eave, resting on exposed joists. Four gabled roof dormers are present; those on number 1 have oval casements with Classical surrounds, while those on number 3 have been replaced with rectangular windows. A longitudinal central chimney with ten flues and old pots runs centrally, with a rear central chimney and a right lateral chimney.

The garden front, overlooking the Dee, features a two-bay central portion between the end bays; the end bays have two-storey canted bay windows to the basement and ground floor, with three-pane casements to each face below and a tall sash above. The central portion has two triple casements to the basement, and two triple tall windows opening onto a balcony with a simple iron railing. The first floor has four 8-pane cross-casements. The attic has round-arched gable windows and two roof dormers.

The interior was not inspected. These villas, along with other houses on Lower Park Road, Queen's Park Road, St John's Road, and Victoria Pathway, are a part of the Queen's Park suburb, planned by James Harrison in 1851, with the villas likely designed by him.