Marylands

Marylands is a villa, now serving as an annex to a 6th form college, built around 1870-1880. It is constructed from grey and yellow brick, with sandstone ashlar dressings and some red brick. The building features steeply-pitched slate roofs adorned with red cockscomb ridge tiles and has an L-shaped plan in a Gothic style.

The villa is two storeys tall with an attic and consists of three asymmetrical bays. The left bay has a gable, while the right bay features a larger gable. There are red brick bands on three levels that run parallel to the gables, along with stylised Lombard friezes. The central entrance is an elaborate arched doorway, offset to the left, with set-in shafts and a two-centred arch that is broken by the lintel. This arch is decorated with a banded head and a multifoil overlight, topped by a steeply-pitched gablet with an apex finial. Above the doorway, there is a half-dormer with two narrow sashed windows and a half-hipped roof.

To the right of the entrance, a mullioned two-light stair window features segmental-headed sashed lights and a deep stone lintel with small multifoil lights. The left gabled bay, which slightly protrudes, has a two-light bay window with sashes, and coupled segmental-headed sashes on the first floor set in two-centred arches with decorated heads. The wider bay to the right includes a large segmental three-light bow window at ground floor, featuring columnar stone mullions, carved heads, and six-pane sashes with vertical glazing bars. The first floor has a three-light sashed window with similar mullions, and an attic window that mirrors the first-floor window on the opposite gable. The building is topped with tall ridge chimneys.

The south front consists of four bays in a similar style, with unequal gables on the first and third bays, and large half-dormer windows on the second and fourth bays, both with hipped roofs. Inside, original features are preserved in a similar style, including the staircase and doorways.