Adams House

Adams House is a villa that has been converted into a hotel, built between 1848 and 1856 with later additions and alterations. The building features pinkish-yellow brick with scored and painted stucco on the 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 vermiculated quoins. Access is via two roll-edged steps leading to a central entrance, which consists of a part-glazed, part-panelled door with a cambered overlight set in plain reveals, surrounded by an alternately vermiculated Gibbs surround. The ground floor has canted bays with 1/1 sash windows that include margin-lights. Above, the first floor features a moulded sill band beneath casement windows with tooled surrounds. The building is topped with a modillion cornice, wide eaves, and end and rear stacks. A continuous verandah on the ground floor showcases a double-scroll motif on its uprights. Inside, the hall is adorned with modillions and paterae on the cornice. Adams House forms an architectural group with Nos. 12-20 (even), 24, and 26 Avenue Road.