147, Manchester Road

This building is a villa, now functioning as a residential home, dating from around 1850 to 1860, with some slight alterations. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, which has been ribbon-pointed, and features a hipped slate roof. The villa has a rectangular double-depth, double-fronted plan, with an additional 20th-century extension at the rear.

It stands two storeys high over cellars and has three windows across the front, which is symmetrical with the central section projecting forward. The facade is enhanced by clasping corner pilasters, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and a low parapet topped with a segmental pediment at the center.

The central entrance features a rectangular porch with corner pilasters and a semi-elliptical headed outer archway, complete with imposts, a moulded head, and a keystone. Above the archway is an entablature with a modillioned cornice and a panelled parapet that has a triangular-headed center. Each side of the porch has a narrow one-light window with a pilastered surround and stained glass. The inner doorway is panelled and glazed, flanked by narrow sidelights and topped with a fanlight that also contains stained glass. Above the porch, there is a segmental-headed window with a shouldered architrave.

On the ground floor, the villa features canted bay windows with cornices and parapets, and the windows are sashed without glazing bars. The first floor windows have plain surrounds and altered glazing. A central chimney with a dentilled cornice is present. The right-hand return wall has three windows, with those on the ground floor being sashed without glazing bars and the upper windows altered.

At the rear, there is a full-height round-headed arch in the center, which contains a doorway at ground level and a stair-window above. Inside, the villa boasts a staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters and a stained-glass window, along with some moulded plaster cornices and a mahogany fireplace surround in the front left room.