13, CHURCH ROAD B15

No. 13 Church Road is a large Italianate villa built around 1850-1855, set back in a spacious garden and accessed by a carriage sweep drive. The villa features a stucco façade, with two tall storeys at the front and three storeys on the sides. The symmetrical front has three bays and is connected to a coach house on the north-west side by a screen wall. It has a plinth, chamfered rusticated quoins, and an applied parapet at the first floor, with the coping acting as a sill course. A floral band serves as a bed for the frieze, supported by doubled acanthus console brackets that hold up the deep flat boxed eaves. The hipped slate roof is adorned with corniced chimneys and two camber-headed slate cheek dormers.

The ground floor features tripartite windows set in eared architraves with plaster dividers, while the panelled friezes include consoles and large scrolled consoles that flank the window heads and support the cornices. Panels of blind balustrading rise from the cornices to the sills of the first-floor windows, which have revealed pilasters with rounded heads and panelled spandrels, flanked by large consoles that support segmental pediments. A large porch is supported by paired, fluted Corinthian columns, with an entablature topped by a balustrade. The attic storey windows on the side elevations are set between consoles, and there is a large stair light with an archivolt arch on consoles to the north-west. The three-bay south-east side has similar window arrangements to the front. The stable block, linked by a screen wall, has a hipped slate roof and features a segmental entrance with radiating glazing bars in the arched windows, which on the first floor cut into the eaves.