Lipa

LIPA is a detached house dating from approximately 1894-5, designed by an unknown architect. Constructed of red and orange brick with a tiled gabled roof, it features cresting, dormers, tall, slim Tudor-style chimney stacks with toothed cornices, and a coved eaves cornice.

The house is two storeys and attics, with four windows visible from the front. A central tetrastyle Doric portico, built of rubbed brick, supports an arcaded brick balustrade with stone coping and ball finials above three grouped first-floor sash windows. These sashes have margin patterned glazing to the upper sash only, and are set within gauged brick heads. To the right is a two-storey canted bay with tripartite sashes; the first floor has inset panel aprons, and an arcaded brick balustrade rises to a tripartite attic sash set within a stone coped Flemish gable with ball finials. To the left is a single sash bay, followed by an octagonal, three-storey corner turret. The turret has sash windows and terminates with a panelled drum, a parapet of dies with ball finials, and a conical tiled roof with a finial. The left-hand return features a Flemish gable. The rear of the house contains a double-height transom and mullion pattern glazed stair window, set beneath a gable with an armorial beast finial. The interior has not been inspected.