39, 41 AND 43, BINSWOOD AVENUE

This is a row of three houses located on Binswood Avenue, built around 1834 and subsequently altered. The construction utilizes pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco facade and a Welsh slate roof. The architectural style is Neo-Tudor.

The houses are two storeys with attics, and include a basement on the right-hand side. There are nine first-floor windows in total; the left bay of each house projects forward and is gabled. Each house has a canted bay window on the ground floor, extending into the basement on the right side, with an added first-floor bay window. Quoins are present, rusticated on the sides of the gabled bays. The first floor features a moulded band, with 2/2 sash windows in the outer bays of each house and a multi-pane casement to the right, each protected by a cavetto-moulded hood with stops. Blind boxes are present on numbers 39 and 43. The central bays have pointed-arched fixed-light windows with pointed cavetto-moulded hoods. The attic windows in the gables include a pointed window to the left and a casement window to the right, both with cavetto-moulded hoods; other attic windows feature 2/2 sashes in plain reveals, all with sills. A modillion cornice runs along the top, and decorative bargeboards adorn the gable. Dormer windows are also present in the attics. The ground floor features central entrances with steps leading to part-glazed, panelled doors with overlights and margin lights within pointed-arched openings, also with cavetto-moulded hoods. To the left of each entrance is a three-light mullion window with three-light casements and a cavetto-moulded hood with label stops; blind boxes are present on numbers 39 and 43. Basement windows are multi-pane casements. The building includes end and ridge stacks, and a tent-roofed, glazed cupola is situated on the right side.

The interior of number 39 includes a staircase with stick balusters, and cornices in some rooms; the interiors of the other properties were not inspected.

Binswood Avenue was laid out around 1828, and the houses were built by 1834. Numbers 31-45 (odd) of Binswood Avenue and number 13 Kenilworth Road form an architectural group.