Admiralty House

Admiralty House is a house built between 1898 and 1901, with an extension added in 1906. It was designed by M. Macartney for a Dutch patron and is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof. The building showcases a Domestic Revival/Queen Anne style, featuring an informal entrance front and a formal garden front.

The house is two storeys high with an attic and consists of a four-bay block on the right side of the entrance front, where the left half projects slightly and includes the entrance. The door is set back behind a round arch leading to a groin vaulted bay. To the right of the entrance, there is a lunette window on the ground floor. A moulded string course separates the storeys, and there are two first-floor oculi with key blocks and gauged brick surrounds. The building has quoined return angles and deep eaves with mutules.

The two bays to the right feature white timber mullion and transom casements with moulded and gauged brick flat arched heads. An extruded stack between these bays has a panelled shaft and an oversailing cap. The left side of the entrance block is set back and has four bays with similar casements and one hipped dormer. There is also a service range further left with two tall six-light stair windows and stacks with oversailing caps. Outshuts with hipped roofs include one with a large lunette window.

On the right return from the front, there is a ground floor round-headed window with Doric pilaster mullions and decoratively leaded windows, along with a keyed surround and an eight-light casement on the first floor. The garden front is symmetrical with seven bays, featuring a canted bay at the center with brick quoining and a central French window, while other windows are casements with key-blocked heads on the ground floor and moulded lintels on the first floor. The garden front also has a plinth, a plat band, and four hipped dormers, with end stacks that have panelled shafts and oversailing caps.

Set back to the left is a ground floor round-headed French window similar to the one on the right return, along with two first-floor cross casements. Set back to the right is a three-bay service wing. Inside, there is a two-bay groin vaulted entrance hall and a fine Neo-Georgian plaster ceiling, with vase balusters and a moulded handrail on the staircase. The house was formerly known as Frithwood House.