Montana Cottage, Including Attached Boundary Wall And Four Gatepiers

Montana Cottage is a detached villa built around 1840 in an Italianate style, with refurbishment in the 1990s that included a rear studio addition. The front facade is stuccoed with incised lines to resemble masonry, topped with a slate roof, with a hipped roof over the centre and a stock brick chimneystack on the right side. The house has two storeys and four windows on the front, featuring sashes with narrow glazing bars. The central two bays project out under a hipped roof, marked by a raised band between the floors, and are flanked by recessed side wings.

The first floor windows are six-pane sashes. The central part has two twelve-pane sashes with moulded architraves and original wooden shutters on the ground floor. The right wing incorporates a coach entrance, now with 20th-century garage doors designed to resemble traditional features. A porch is set into the angle between the centre and the left wing, featuring a cornice, pilasters, and a round-headed opening with a rectangular fanlight above the door. The rear elevation includes a late 20th-century gabled brick studio.

Attached to the front of the cottage is a forecourt wall approximately four feet high, constructed of stock brick, with two sets of rendered gatepiers featuring moulded tops and slightly pyramidal caps, marking pedestrian and carriage entrances.

Inside, the original staircase retains stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. Other original features include moulded and panelled door architraves, wooden window shutters, some moulded cornices, skirting boards, and floorboards. The Drawing Room features a floral plastered ceiling rose.