6, Westcliffe Road

Villa, likely built around 1850, and subsequently enlarged and altered. The property is now divided into four flats. Constructed of white painted scored stucco with a hipped slate roof, it is designed in the Italianate style, following a double-depth, double-fronted plan with later rear extensions.

The exterior presents two storeys and an attic, with a three-bay main section plus an additional bay on the right. The main three bays display a symmetrical facade, featuring a recessed centre at the first floor. The design incorporates quoins, a plain frieze, and bracketed eaves. A pilastered porch occupies the centre ground floor, incorporating a large round-headed doorway with a keystone, flanked by round-headed windows. This is set beneath a moulded balustraded balcony. The first floor features a French window with round-headed lights, set within a pilastered and pedimented architrave. An elaborate late 19th-century white painted cast-iron portico, with three by three bays, is attached to the porch. This portico features barley sugar columns with tall pedestals and Composite capitals, geometric open-work panels between the pedestals, a deep frieze of varied geometric panels, a hipped glazed roof, a moulded gutter cornice, and a projected gabled canopy over the central entrance. The cornice and ridge are embellished with cresting and finials. The flanking bays have giant pilastered architraves with plain friezes, moulded cornices, and enriched upstands; framing a canted bay window with hornless 2/2 sashes at ground floor and a window with two narrow 1/1 sashes (also hornless) at first floor. Side-wall chimneys are visible.

The additional bay to the right is narrower and lower, with a banded corner pilaster, plain frieze, and moulded cornice; it has a single 1/1 unhorned sash on each floor, both framed by moulded architraves; the lower sash features a cornice. The left (south) return wall displays a canted bay window and, towards the rear, a large oriel on brackets.

The interior retains a former billiard room at ground floor, notable for its elaborate carved panelling.

Historically, this was the first house built on Westcliffe Road.