179 Longford Road, together with a rendered brick outbuilding to the rear

179 Longford Road is a late Georgian detached house, altered in the late 19th century, with a rendered brick outbuilding to the rear. It is listed at Grade II.

The main house is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond with a blue-brick plinth, beneath a slate roof. The outbuilding is rendered brick. The building forms a U-shaped plan, with a range running north to south facing the road and two wings extending westward. A rectangular outbuilding stands to the rear.

The principal elevation facing north is three bays wide. It features a central recessed three-panelled front door set in a decoratively-carved panelled doorframe, with a projecting painted portico with foliate capitals. This is flanked by eight-over-eight sash windows on the ground floor. The first-floor windows are also sashes with horned frames; the central opening has six-over-six panes and is flanked by two windows with eight-over-eight panes. To the right of this wing is a single-storey extension containing a kitchen and garage. The east elevation fronting the road is three bays with eight-over-eight sash windows: three on the first floor and two on the ground floor, one of which is hornless. The left ground-floor bay contains a late 19th-century shop front with a panelled door and multi-pane timber-framed window under a plain timber fascia board supported by scroll consoles. The south elevation is largely blank except for two sash windows at the west end. Most outward-facing sash windows are topped by decorative pediments supported by scroll consoles; two windows are double-glazed replacements. The eaves cornice is supported by paired scroll consoles. A small enclosed courtyard lies to the rear (west) of the building, overlooked by a large sash window positioned at the main stairwell. Some openings onto this courtyard have been altered. The slate roof is hipped with gables at the west end of the north and south wings. Two brick chimneystacks are present. Solar panels have been installed on the south slope of the roof over the south wing.

The ground floor interior contains three reception rooms with ornate cornicing and a central corridor with cornicing and monochrome stone-tile floor. Original features include oak-panelled doors and architraves. The north-west reception room has a marble fireplace; the north-east reception room fireplace dates from the early 20th century. The main staircase at the building's centre is a winder with open-string, straight balusters, wreathed handrail and curtail step. At the west end of the north wing is a kitchen with a separate winder stair. The ground floor of the south wing contains a shop, let separately as of 2013, though a blocked internal window and door giving access between shop and house remain visible. The first floor has five bedrooms arranged around a central landing, some with fireplaces with 19th-century surrounds and coved ceilings.

The rear outbuilding is rectangular, rendered brick, one-and-a-half storeys high with a pitched roof and central brick stack. Most openings have been boarded over except those on the east elevation facing the courtyard, which have multi-pane metal casement windows. A timber door is present on the south gable end. The north elevation has been knocked through to an attached L-shaped single-storey brick range.

The L-shaped single-storey brick range to the north of the house, including a single-storey brick outbuilding with corrugated-sheet roof and an attached late 20th-century brick building, were constructed as outbuildings. Various boundary wall sections are also attached to the building. These are relatively plain structures which have lost significant original fabric and are not of special interest. The L-shaped range and all boundary walls are excluded from the listing.