Marteg House

Marteg House is a house built in 1901-1902 by architect Walter J Tapper for W Harmon Morgan MD. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile hipped roof with sprocketed wooden modillion eaves cornice. The building has brick axial and lateral stacks, with the lateral stack displaying stone volutes.

The house has a double pile plan. In the front range, there is a kitchen with a scullery behind it on the left, and a surgery and waiting room on the right, with a central entrance hall in between that leads to a stairwell and the surgery entrance on the right, and a back doorway on the left. The dining and drawing rooms are located in the block at the back of the house. It is designed in the Queen Anne style.

Marteg House is two storeys high and features a symmetrical north front with a 2:3:2 bay arrangement, where the windows on the right and left of the centre are narrower. The façade includes rusticated brick quoins, a stringcourse, and a heavy wooden modillion cornice. The windows are 12 and 18-pane sashes with exposed cases and rubbled brick flat arches. The central doorway is adorned with a moulded architrave, panelled reveals, and a semi-circular curved canopy featuring egg and dart moulding on console brackets with acanthus leaves. Above the door is a Chippendale type overlight and a moulded 6-panel door. The right-hand (west) return has a side doorway with a canopy on console brackets, a semi-circular fanlight, and a half-glazed door, along with a large mullion transom stair window above to the right. The narrower rear elevation consists of 4 bays under a double span roof, with similar sash windows and a garden doorway to the left of centre.

Inside, the house features a well-finished panelled hall with a 2-bay arcaded screen leading to the stairwell, which contains a moulded string staircase with turned balusters and panelled walls. The other rooms were not inspected but may also be of interest.