16 AND 17, CHAD ROAD B15

Nos 16 and 17 Chad Road, built around 1850-1855, are a carefully proportioned pair of semi-detached villas. They are two storeys tall, constructed of white brick with stucco dressings. The buildings are designed as a single broad composition with six bays, featuring single recessed bays at each end and their ground floor screened by flank walls. They have a low-pitched hipped slate roof with deep panelled soffit flat eaves. Central and flanking chimney stacks are adorned with friezes and cornices. There is a shallow plinth and ground floor sill course, along with a first-floor sill course.

All windows and doors are of identical proportions, each with architrave surrounds, and the ground floor windows have sills slightly recessed with dies extending down to the plinth. The first-floor windows feature slightly advanced sills with anthemia plaques serving as consoles, and the sections of the sill course between the windows have incised panels. The doors are double, featuring small dado panels and two tall vertical panels, with similar detailing to the windows in the recessed bays.