Woodliffe Villa

A late 19th-century house and restaurant, altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Welsh slate roof. It features cast iron detailing, including an arcade and balcony.

The house is three storeys high and two bays wide. A full-length pavement arcade carries a first-floor balcony. This arcade has a narrow bay to the right of the entrance and a wider bay to the left. The arcade is supported by slender columns with octagonal bases, ribbed lower sections to the shafts, and composite capitals. There is an ornate openwork round arch to the narrower right bay, and similar arched brackets to the left bay. A plain frieze runs along the top of the arcade. The ornate balcony railings are divided into four panels, with scrollwork and dog-bars in the lower section, and closely-scrolled floral motifs in the upper section. The principals of the balcony are square and topped with ball finials.

The ground floor has two stone steps leading to a recessed, 20th-century part-glazed panelled door, which is set beneath a plain fanlight in a rendered round-headed surround with a keyed arch, moulded archivolt, and imposts. A 20th-century shopfront is located to the left. The first floor has a pair of double doors, with an overlight, beneath a keyed stone arch. A canted wooden bay window is positioned to the left, with pilasters, segmental-headed plate-glass sashes, a moulded bracketed frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a hood. The first floor also has a pair of windows with ashlar sills and 20th-century glazing, also beneath a segmental keyed arch. The keystones and capitals of the door and window arches are decorated with various moulded foliate and shell motifs. A moulded brick cornice crowns the building. A brick stack, with a moulded brick cornice, is situated to the left and was added later in the 19th century.

Together with the neighbouring properties at Nos. 42-45, this building forms part of the best-preserved balconied buildings on the seafront.