Number 12 And Attached Walls

House. Built in 1902. Designed by Edward Haywood-Farmer for himself and built by Isaac Langley. The building is constructed of thin, red, sand-faced Leicester brick laid in Flemish bond with sparing dressings of stone and lead, and has a roof of tiles.

The principal range runs roughly east-west with a cross-wing at the east end of the south front and a service wing at the west end of the north front. The house is two storeys and attic with irregular fenestration throughout. All windows are flat-arched and generally fitted with wooden casements.

The east front features a flat-arched entrance with a shouldered architrave of stone and a six-panelled door, the upper panels filled with leaded glazing. The entrance is set within a very shallow, two-storey gabled porch. The upper two-light window has stone dressings and a pattern of stepped brickwork around its head. The gable of the porch has a pattern of stepped bricks as a cornice, a motif repeated on most gables; the remaining gables have wooden bargeboards. To the right of the porch is the gable-end of the principal range, with a single-storey canted bay window topped by a lead parapet decorated with rosettes. To the left of the porch is the east side of the southern cross-wing, with a similar bay window and an eaves cornice featuring composite modillions and wrought-iron gutter brackets.

On the south front, the gable end of the cross-wing has a canted, single-storey bay window under a hipped roof, which is in keeping with but not part of the original building, with a flat-arched window above and a stone lozenge in the gable. The left-hand return has an external stack and eaves cornice as on the east side. The principal range features chiefly three cross-gables: under the smallest and easternmost is a garden entrance to the ground floor and a flat-arched window above between simplified brick pilasters terminating in a stone-coped gable with ball finials to the kneelers; under the middle gable are flat-arched windows to ground and first floors and attic, and a stack which breaks through the left-hand side of the gable; under the left-hand gable is a single-storey canted bay window with lead guttering decorated with rosettes and two flat-arched windows.

The west front has a door added in the service wing. The north front has two two-storey gabled projections of one brick's depth, and in the attic, three lead-covered segmental-arched dormers. A former washhouse, coalhouse and related service buildings form a single-storey wing around a courtyard at the north-west corner with a screen wall on the west side. End and ridge stacks have all been lowered. Low brick walls to the south side, with coping of brick and tiles, form a terrace in front of the house with steps down; the original ball finials have been replaced.

Interior: Architraves and six-panelled doors survive generally throughout. The hall is panelled in oak to picture rail height with unmoulded framing and has a simple fireplace with one course of tiles by William De Morgan, the rest replacements. The dining room is panelled in the same way, with a fireplace set at an angle in a recess. The drawing room features a panelled recess around the fireplace and simple plasterwork decoration to the ceiling. A dog-leg staircase with square newels and balusters is present.

The building is also noted for its attached walls to the south side.