Gunside and Bettyswood

Gunside and Bettyswood is a house that has been divided into two dwellings, built in 1912 by Reginald Longdon for John Hall. It features Flemish bond vitrified blue brick with red brick dressings and has a clay plain tile hipped roof with a moulded wooden eaves cornice, moulded cast-iron gutters, and lead rainwater heads. The building is designed in the Queen Anne style.

The house has an E-shaped plan, with service rooms located in the left (west) wing, now known as Gunside, and the central stair hall and main rooms in the right (east) wing, occupied by Bettyswood. The exterior consists of two storeys and an attic, with a south front that has a 2:3:2 bay arrangement. It features flanking two-bay projecting wings and a three-bay centre that includes a projecting porch with a stone architrave, cornice, and an iron balcony above. The porch has a French casement in a moulded eared architrave with a cambered head set in a slightly advanced brick panel. The ground floor has twelve-pane sash windows with cambered arches and keystones, along with cross-mullion-transom windows with leaded panes on either side of the porch. The facade is accented with a red brick band, window surrounds, and rusticated quoins.

At the rear (north), the arrangement consists of 1:1:2:1:1 bays, with the second and fourth bays recessed and featuring coved eaves, blind arches, three-light stair windows, and canopies over the doorways below. The centre bay projects forward with a hipped roof and includes a large canted bay window on the ground floor with twelve-pane sashes and a balcony above with French casements. The side elevations have two and three bays, and hipped dormers with casements are present.

The interior of Gunside retains some original joinery, including attic chimneypieces, while the principal rooms and stair hall in Bettyswood have not been inspected.