76 Storey's Way

76 Storey's Way is a neo-Georgian house built in 1913 to the designs of Arthur Hamilton Moberly. It faces east onto the road and is constructed of yellow brick with occasional red brick laid in English bond, with silvery gault brick dressings and a plain tile roof covering.

The house has two storeys and an attic beneath a hipped roof with gablets and two transverse ridge stacks with oversailing brick courses. It follows a double-pile, approximately rectangular plan with a single-storey projection on the north gable end that was formerly used as a boiler room and store room.

The eight-bay east facade has a first-floor plat band and is articulated by rusticated quoins and pilasters which divide the elevation into two, four and two bays, with the centre four bays slightly recessed. The front door, located in the third bay from the left, is reached via two semi-circular steps laid in brick. It has six fielded panels and a single-light rectangular overlight, with panelled jambs and a moulded flat hood with a panelled soffit supported by scrolled brackets. The regular fenestration consists of six-over-six pane horned sashes in gault brick surrounds; those to the ground floor sit beneath gauged segmental brick arches. The two left-hand bays on the ground floor are blind; a plaque commemorating the residence of Ludwig Wittgenstein is affixed to the right one. The attic is lit by four hipped dormers wholly within the roof space, which have tile-hung sides and two-light leaded casements. The north and south roof slopes have a similar dormer. Attached to the north gable end is a single-storey block with a hipped M-roof, featuring a vertical plank door on the north side flanked by a two-light wooden casement on the right and a slatted opening on the left. The right return is lit by a three-light casement, and the left return by two single-light casements.

The seven-bay west garden front is similarly articulated by rusticated quoins and pilasters. It is dominated by a central projecting gabled bay with rusticated quoins rising above the eaves and terminating in a square chimney-like finial. This bay lights the staircase and has two six-over-six pane sashes with a herringbone brick panel between them. The top window has a keyed semi-circular brick arch with a tympanum of vertically laid brick. To the right is a multi-pane door with wooden glazing bars and margin lights, and further right a pair of narrow four-over-four pane sashes, both under a segmental arch in the same style as the staircase window. The remaining fenestration matches the facade, and the attic is lit by two dormers. The south gable end has a canted bay with a late 20th-century French window in the centre and sash windows either side. The first floor has three blind window openings.

The interior retains a good proportion of original fixtures, fittings and joinery in a restrained classical style, including two-panelled doors set within recessed arched openings, some retaining lock cases with delicate drop handles, moulded picture rails and fireplaces. All joinery is painted white.

The small entrance hall in the third bay leads through a door set in a segmental arched surround with a keystone that extends upwards to form part of the moulded cornice into the staircase hall. This has a corner fireplace (now blocked) with a narrow wooden surround and canted hearth, two blind arched openings on the left wall and two arched openings on the right through which the open well stair is accessed. The stair has quarter-turn landings, a closed string, diamond balusters and square newel posts.

To the left of the staircase hall is the south drawing room, which occupies the width of the house. It has a moulded cornice, wide unadorned frieze and incorporated picture rail. The chimneypiece, set between square pilasters, has a moulded wooden surround and a three-panel overmantel with a cornice supported by shaped brackets. It is decorated with large tiles designed by William de Morgan depicting a stylised flower in vibrant turquoise.

To the right of the entrance hall is the former dining room, which has a similar cornice, two corner display cupboards and a recess for a sideboard. The room now has late 20th-century kitchen fittings, and the corner fireplace has been boarded and retiled in white tiles. A small servery to the right retains a serving hatch, followed by the former kitchen and service rooms at the northern end, which have been converted into bedrooms. A small room on the west side of the former kitchen, described as a morning room in the 1946 sale particulars, retains a small rustic red brick fireplace with brick corbels.

The first floor has the same arrangement of paired arched openings as the staircase hall. The fixtures and fittings are plainer and include picture rails, fitted cupboards and wardrobes, and fireplaces with moulded wooden surrounds, most of which are now boarded over. One room has a shelved recess described as a fitted medicine cabinet in the sale particulars.

The attic similarly has fitted cupboards and fireplaces with little wooden surrounds.