Ivygate And Attached Boundary Walls And Gate Piers

This is a villa with attached boundary walls and gate piers, dating to circa 1820, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof. The roof features rebuilt ridge and hip stacks with oversailing detail and decorative pots. Brick boundary walls are also present, along with stucco gate piers. The building has a double-depth plan, with a central entrance to the return (west) elevation and a service range to the rear.

The two-storey villa has five first-floor windows. External detailing includes full-height Doric-style pilasters to the ends, a first-floor band, a frieze with sunken panels, moulding to the wide eaves, and tooled window architraves. The windows are predominantly 6/6 sashes, although the left return has three first-floor windows and a triple window on the ground floor (a 6/6 sash flanked by 2/2 sashes). The front door is part-glazed with four panels, featuring a fanlight with radial glazing bars. A Roman Doric-style porch with a dentilled entablature is also present. The rear elevation retains 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; the rear door has six flush panels. The interior contains original features, including panelled shutters.

Attached boundary walls run along the north, west, and south sides of the property. The southern boundary includes gate piers with replacement gates. The walls abut the service range for approximately 4 metres in the northeast and for about 35 metres along the west boundary where they curve to angle and for about 23 metres to the south boundary with a pier, followed by a quadrant wall, a further pier, a pair of piers with a 20th-century gate, a subsequent quadrant wall and a final pier. The piers are square on plan and feature a moulded band, a frieze, and a stepped coping. The boundary walls frame this corner of Britannia Square, although a further wall to the south has been partly rebuilt.

The buildings in Britannia Square form a unified group, initiated in 1820 and planned around a central green. The villa is comparable to smaller developments such as Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace.