Arlington House And Attached Railings

Arlington House is a villa, dating to around 1830, which has been converted into three flats. Later additions and alterations include a single-story extension to the rear. The villa is constructed of reddish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It features a cast-iron verandah and railings.

The two-story villa has an attic to the gable and three first-floor windows. The front facade, facing the gable end, has a plinth and six roll-edged steps leading to a central entrance. The entrance features double six-panel doors with side-lights containing glazing-bars, and an elliptically-arched overlight with radial glazing-bars. The entrance is framed by a distyle Roman Doric porch with engaged pilasters, a frieze, architrave, cornice, and blocking course. The ground and first floors have blind windows on the front facade. A central first-floor window is a six-over-six sash. All windows are in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills. A cornice runs around the entire house. The shaped gable has copings rising to double stacks and contains a pair of six-over-six sashes with a continuous sill and plain reveals.

The garden facade slightly projects. The ground floor has ten-pane French windows with divided overlights, and the first floor has six-over-six sashes in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills. Concealed openings are present at basement level. The facade facing Binswood Avenue has a part-glazed, four-panel door within a plain surround. Canted bays on the ground floor have one-over-one sashes with horns. The first floor has six-over-six sashes in plain reveals with sills and tooled surrounds. The rear range has a tripartite window of one-over-one sashes, along with a twentieth-century porch and window. A continuous verandah, featuring paterae and anthemions on the uprights, extends along the garden facade.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.

Subsidiary features include railings to the sides of the steps leading to the gable-end entrance and to the area on the left; these railings have open-lozenge finials.

Arlington Avenue, formerly Arlington Street, was laid out in the 1820s. Arlington House forms a group with numbers 50-60 (even) Binswood Avenue.