Yorton House

Yorton House, formerly known as Yorton Villa, is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 18th century and was remodeled and extended around 1830. The front of the building is stuccoed, designed to resemble ashlar, over a red brick structure, and it features a hipped slate roof with a two-span design at the rear. The house has two and three storeys, with a plinth, a plat band at the first-floor cill level, and a dentil brick eaves cornice. There are pairs of integral rendered brick end stacks, although the left-hand stack at the rear has been demolished.

The façade consists of three bays, with glazing bar sashes and round-arched ground-floor windows that have louvred shutters. The central entrance features a pair of doors with three raised and fielded panels each, surrounded by a reeded architrave, a segmental fanlight, and a decorative surround with reeded pilaster strips, moulded imposts, and a reeded archivolt with a key. A flight of nine stone steps, some of which were replaced with concrete in the mid-20th century, leads up to the entrance, flanked by low curving walls and square end piers topped with globe finials.

To the left, there is a two-bay addition from around 1830, which is set back and has a painted dressed sandstone plinth, a plat band at the first-floor cill level, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and 16-pane glazing bar sashes. The right-hand return front of the main block features central round-arched windows on both the ground and first floors, aligned with the central corridor. The rear of the main block has three storeys, with segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, and horizontal sliding windows on the second floor. The interior has not been inspected. The owner noted in December 1985 that the main entrance was originally located to the north-east, where there is now a round-arched window, and that it was moved to its current position around 1830.