Kingston Lodge (Number 18) And Kingston Cottage (Number 18A)

Kingston Lodge (Number 18) and Kingston Cottage (Number 18A) are a villa built between 1848 and 1856, with later additions and alterations, including a rear extension. The building is constructed of pinkish-yellow brick, featuring a painted stucco front facade, a Welsh slate roof, and a cast-iron verandah. It has a central hallway plan and stands two storeys tall with three first-floor windows. The structure includes a plinth and alternately rusticated quoins.

The central entrance has two roll-edged steps leading to a part-panelled, part-glazed door with a cambered overlight set in plain reveals, framed by an alternately vermiculated Gibbs surround. The windows are 1/1 with margin-lights, set in plain reveals with sills and tooled surrounds; the ground floor windows are larger. A continuous first-floor sill band projects below the windows, and there is a modillion eaves cornice with wide eaves. The roof is hipped with end stacks.

Inside, the villa features four-panel doors, marble fireplaces (some of which have been replaced), and an openwell staircase with elongated-onion-on-bobbin balusters. Kingston Lodge and Kingston Cottage form an architectural group with Nos 12, 14, 16, and 20-26 (even) Avenue Road.