Parkside

House. c.1910. Designed by architect Aylwin O. Cave, F.R.I.B.A. (1875–1935). A two-storey-plus-attic Arts and Crafts-style house of brick with roughcast rendering to the first floor and gables. The design incorporates applied pegged timber framing to the gables and timber-framed bay windows with yellow brick and flat brick tile nogging. Timber windows feature leaded panes throughout. Brick chimneystacks are detailed with flint and tile work. The roof is covered with re-used malting tiles.

The plan is L-shaped, formed by two intersecting gabled ranges.

The south (front) elevation comprises three sections. To the right, a wide half-hipped gable rises through the attic and first floor levels. This gable houses a two-storey oriel to the centre with three leaded pane lights to each floor above three rendered panels, each bearing a timber curved diamond motif. The remainder of the gable displays applied pegged timber framing including curved braces, plaster infill, and slender panels of flat brick tiles. A recessed main entrance at ground floor level to the left of the gable is framed by brick piers with tile courses and a timber lintel. To the centre, a small glazed room with leaded panes above a brick plinth projects at ground floor level, set beneath an exaggerated dormer with a flat roof at first floor level, featuring panels of leaded pane windows above panels of thin yellow brick nogging above a tile course. A chimney of multiple stacks stands here, the forward stack being lower with flint decoration within a miniature gable. To the left, a small hipped-roof dormer at first floor level is set within a deep roof that, supported by chamfered posts, forms a porch with wood brackets to the eaves.

The east elevation has to the left a two-storey, three-sided bay window that pierces the deep tile roof. At ground floor are leaded pane lights above a brick plinth; at first floor, leaded pane lights above panels of brick and tile nogging. A central chimney is detailed as at the front. A recessed multi-pane door stands at the centre.

The north elevation shows to the left the main gable as at the front but plainer in treatment, with brick at ground floor, a course of brick tiles, and roughcast above. Multi-pane wood-framed windows light the ground and first floors. An advanced room with a hipped tiled roof projects at ground floor. A plain brick chimney stands at the centre of the gable. To the right is a large four-pane leaded window.

The west elevation has to the right a wide gable with a two-storey, three-sided bay window displaying leaded pane lights and brick and tile nogging at first floor as at the front.

Internally, a dining room to the right of the entrance hall contains two exposed beams and an inglenook with an altered fireplace. To the left of the hall is a hall with a projecting glazed room and a small fireplace with tile and wood surround, leading to a drawing room with exposed beams and an inglenook with an altered fireplace. A central stair features panelling, square-plan newels with flat caps, and alternating splat and angled stick balusters, which continue along the open landing. A main room to the rear, originally a kitchen, retains glazed brick dadoes and built-in cupboards, a larder, a bell system, and a door to the outside. The first floor contains three bedrooms mirroring the ground floor plan, each with exposed beams. The main bedroom has a wood-framed inglenook with an altered fireplace and flanking built-in cupboards. An additional room above the hall incorporates a glazed dormer. Two-panel, high-waisted doors are found throughout.

A subsidiary entrance gate is marked by brick piers with tile courses, capped with a miniature gable detailed with flint and tile work.

The house remains largely unchanged from its publication in 1912 and is notable for its imaginative and thoughtful massing, careful use of materials, and many original fittings.