20 And 20A, Avenue Road

This villa, now divided into two dwellings at 20 and 20A Avenue Road, was built around 1848 to 1856, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of pinkish-yellow brick with painted and scored stucco to the front facade, topped with a Welsh slate roof and featuring a cast-iron verandah. The building follows a central hallway plan and is two storeys high with three windows on the first floor. It has a plinth and alternately vermiculated quoins. Two roll-edged steps lead to a central entrance with a part-glazed, part-panelled door and a cambered overlight, set within a Gibbs surround. The windows are 1/1 sashes with margin-lights and sills in tooled surrounds, with larger windows on the ground floor. A continuous first-floor sill band projects below the windows; the first-floor windows have Venetian blinds and blind boxes. The roof is hipped with end and rear stacks. A continuous verandah to the ground floor has a double-scroll motif on the uprights. On the left return, a blind box and Venetian blinds remain on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected. The building contributes to a group value with numbers 12-18 (even) and 22, 24, and 26 Avenue Road.