The Spinney

This is a house built in 1912 by Harry Bloomer for Sydney Terry. It is constructed of roughcast brick with a clay plain tile roof, featuring gables, deep eaves with exposed rafter ends, and exposed purlin ends. Brick stacks are positioned axially, laterally, and at gable ends. The plan is asymmetrical, incorporating a hall and study at the front, a dining room and drawing room at the back and right, a kitchen to the left, and a billiard room at a lower ground floor level below the drawing room. The architectural style is Domestic Revival.

The west front has three bays and appears asymmetrical with staggered gables to the left and centre; the centre gable is smaller and its right side is swept down over an integral porch with a round arch. Windows are four-light casements with glazing bars and cornices. A panel in the centre of the first-floor window on the left side depicts an apple tree and the name of the house. The first-floor window on the right breaks the eaves. The left, or north, gable end has a gabled lateral stack to the right.

The rear, or east, elevation presents three bays with a central gable. The roof is carried down on the right side and supported on a round brick pier to form a verandah. The left bay is at a lower ground level with a three-storey canted bay window. A later 20th-century glazed conservatory is located at the centre.

The interior remains largely intact, featuring original joinery and other details. The hall has painted timber posts with short braces to cambered beams, and a straight staircase with stick balustrade. The dining room has a wooden chimney piece with tall octagonal columns rising through a panelled overmantel, wall panelling with a deep frieze above, painted by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford depicting scenes from Robin Hood, and a plaster ceiling with reeded ribs. The drawing room features a frieze of festoons and bows, moulded plaster ceiling ribs, and a chimney piece in an 18th-century style. Several windows and door panels have stained glass depicting landscapes, birds, and flowers. Bronze light fittings and switches are present, and the doors have ornate brass and enamelled copper fittings.