20, Charlotte Road B3

No. 20 Charlotte Road is a substantial villa built around 1850-1855, located on a corner site with Pakenham Road. It features a terraced garden front that overlooks long gardens along Charlotte Road. The building is two storeys high, constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, and has a nearly square plan with three bay elevations. It includes a plinth, a first-floor sill band, and a string course below a stucco frieze with console brackets supporting the cornice. A brick parapet with coping runs around the three main elevations, with shallow breaks at the center of each front.

The entrance and Pakenham Road fronts have plain painted stone surrounds for the windows, with heads flanked by anthemion patterned consoles that support cornices on the ground floor and pediments above on the first floor, the center ones being segmental. There is an Ionic column porch with a dentil cornice and a blocking course, with the doorway set in a round-headed architrave case and a panelled soffit over a fanlight. On Pakenham Road, the central first-floor window features a blind balustrade that rises from the cornice of the ground floor window.

The garden front exhibits similar architectural details but includes two canted pent roof bay windows on the ground floor flanking a round-headed garden door in an architrave surround. To the south, a lower three-bay service wing extends with a screen wall link. The stable court has three bay elevations with a central round arch window, and the coach house is positioned at a right angle. The screen walls sweep down to corniced gate piers at the entrance to the yard.