Shepherds Hey

This is a house with attached garage and service ranges, built in 1936 by J.H. & R.B. Liddington of Rugby for G.A. Frost. The exterior is brick, rendered throughout, and has steep pitched thatched roofs. Axial and gable-end stacks are rendered with panelled sides and stepped tops.

The plan features principal rooms on the south side, a curved bay vestibule and stair hall at the front, and service rooms on the north side, with outhouses surrounding a small enclosed yard and a garage at the left end. The design is in the Domestic Revival style.

The house is two storeys and has a four-window range. The windows have leaded glazing in steel casements with wooden mullions, which were boarded at the time of survey. French windows in the same style, with galvanized steel panels, are found in the dining room and lounge. The front entrance has a central, rounded stair tower with a pyramidal roof, a round arched doorway flanked by single-light windows. To the left of the entrance is a rounded extrusion containing a cloakroom with a three-light window under a pyramidal roof. Above are three stepped round arched stair windows, along with single and double windows of varying sizes on each floor. A gable to the garden front, on the right side, incorporates a semicircular bay window (single storey, with a pyramidal roof) and a single-light leaded window in the garret above. The service range, to the left, is single-storey, with a rounded corner and a round arched door flanked by a single window. The garage, also single-storey, has a curved flank wall and thatched detail with a round corner pier. Rear elevations feature windows of varied sizes. The service yard has wooden gutters on iron scroll brackets.

The principal ground floor rooms have coved ceilings. Original single-panel doors and chamfered hardwood surrounds remain on both floors. The dining room is notable for its canted ceiling and panelled cross beams, as well as full-height panelling in hardwood veneered plywood, and folding screen doors in a matching style. The former position of the chimneypiece is flanked by fitted bookshelves and cupboards; the original wooden wall-lights are present. The lounge contains a plain stone chimneypiece with a niche above, said to resemble the original dining room fireplace. The kitchen retains its original fitted furniture, and the larder has original tiling overlaid with later 20th-century tiling. The winder staircase has a veneered panelled enclosure and balustrade, matching the ground floor panelling. Bedrooms have canted ceilings; the southernmost bedroom has an original electric fire in a wooden surround. Some rooms have concealed strip lighting. First floor rooms have cast aluminum finger-plates and most have red enamelled metal door handles. The bathroom and cloakroom retain their original coloured fittings.