17, Rosecroft Avenue

No. 17 Rosecroft Avenue is a detached house built in 1898-9, designed by CHB Quennell and constructed by Boddy & Chapman, with plaster panels modelled by Benjamin Lloyd. The building is of red brick with a plastered first floor featuring relief classical female figures, putti, and foliage, along with red brick dressings. A brick modillion band runs along the first floor. The tiled hipped roof has a gable to the right-hand bay, dormers, tall brick slab chimney stacks, overhanging bracketed eaves with a moulded cornice.

The asymmetrical design is two storeys and attics, with three windows. A projecting gabled right-hand bay features a five-light canted bowed bay of sash windows with blind boxes and an entablature with a projecting cornice. The first floor has a segmental-arched three-light sash window with a blind box. The gable is topped with a keyed oculus, moulded eaves cornice, and short returns of eaves soffit, creating the appearance of a broken pediment above brick pilasters. The central bay contains the entrance, featuring a cornice hood on enriched console brackets, a part-glazed panelled door with sidelights, and a first-floor sash with a blind box. The left-hand bay has a three-light sash window with a blind box on both floors. The interior has not been inspected.