2, Gloucester Road

This is a villa dating to circa 1850-54, designed by John Aughton, and slightly altered since. The construction is white-painted stucco with slate roofs.

The building has an irregular cruciform plan, made up of a single-depth main range at a right angle to the street, with side wings located close to the front. The exterior is two and three storeys, with a three-window frontage. The design is almost symmetrical, featuring a projected three-storey gabled central section flanked by set-back two-storey wings, plus a porch in the left angle. First-floor sill bands run along all three portions, and rusticated quoins are present on the centre and left wing. The centre section has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with pilasters, a dentilled and modillioned cornice, and unhorned 1/1 and 2/2 sash windows. Above, each upper floor has an unhorned 2/2 sash window with a shouldered architrave.

A rectangular, flat-roofed porch is on the left, with round-headed open arches to the front and left, including imposts and keystones, mirroring details from the bay window. The side wings each have one 2/2 sash window on each floor, similar to those on the centre, except that the first-floor window on the right wing no longer has an architrave. A gabled single-storey addition is at the left end. Tall corniced chimneys are on the right-hand side of the main range. The right-hand return wall of the right wing features a canted bay window, like that on the front. The interior has not been inspected. The property forms a group with number 4 to the left, which is its reflected counterpart.