74 Wood Street including the western boundary wall and south-east pier

74 Wood Street is an early 19th-century villa that has functioned as a veterinary hospital since the early 20th century. It comprises a two-storey main range with a T-plan facing south, constructed in orange brick laid in Flemish bond with stuccoed front and east elevations beneath a hipped slate-covered roof. The main entrance opens into a large hall with the main stair positioned in the north-east corner. To the east is a single room with a modern receptionist's counter accessed through an enlarged opening. The west side of the hall contains an original single room, now partitioned into two consulting rooms divided by a central corridor. The rear part of the main range contains a large single room to the south with access to extensions and a small cellar, and three reconfigured rooms to the north with a secondary stair. The first floor comprises a landing with a timber-framed full-height glazed screen, two rooms on either side of the main range, and a smaller centrally placed room. A small shower room occupies the north-west corner of the front part, while the rear contains a staff room to the south and an office to the north accessed by a short flight of steps.

The stuccoed principal south elevation is symmetrical with a centrally placed entrance flanked by paired windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor. The entrance features a flat-roofed porch supported on columns, a replacement in the style of the original, with a four-panel door having glazed upper lights with transom and flanking pilasters. Fenestration consists of replacement timber-framed horned sash windows without glazing bars in plain square-headed openings with timber sills, green-painted valances positioned under the lintels, and the hipped roof has overhanging eaves with timber soffits.

The stuccoed east elevation of the main range features a later tripartite horned sash window to each floor without glazing bars and with timber sills and replacement valences. The first floor of the lower northern part has a six-over-six hornless sash window in a segmental arched opening, a small modern rectangular window with concrete surround, and a two-over-two horned sash window in a square-headed opening. The south elevation of the small single-storey flat-roofed eastern extension is of rough stonework with a double one-over-one timber casement window with stone sill.

The first floor of the west elevation has two timber horned sash windows, the lower with two-over-two glazing bars and a further six-over-six hornless sash to the northern part, all in segmental-arched openings. A single multi-paned hornless sash window appears on the ground floor. Of two chimney stacks to the rear of the main range, only the eastern survives, rendered in concrete. Another stack on the eastern side of the north part has been removed.

Interior features include a hall with moulded plaster panelling, dado and picture rails and a foliate cornice. The open-string elliptical stair has stick balusters, mahogany scroll handrail and spandrel ornamentation. Windows in the two ground-floor front rooms contain internal shutters, those to the eastern window being of later date. The first floor retains a number of four-panel doors with their original surrounds opening onto the landing. The eastern front room has a fireplace with timber surround featuring bulls-eye corners, and a small brick hearth occupies the north-east corner of the rearmost room. Much of the interior has been converted to operating theatres, dispensaries, laboratories and wards with modern finishes and consequent loss of original features.

A long single-storey stable and carriage range was added to the rear by 1840, featuring a pitched clay-tiled roof with a late 20th-century flat-roofed southern extension and a contemporary link block with pitched slate roof adjoined to its east. A small late 19th-century flat-roofed extension was added to the north-east corner. An early 20th-century single-storey extension with pitched corrugated metal-covered roof and flat-roofed northern outshut adjoins the west elevation of the main range. A further flat-roofed extension of 20th and 21st-century date has been added to the eastern elevation of the rear part of the main range.

The western boundary wall is probably early to mid-19th century in date, constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond with a soldier course capping and buttresses on the western side. It terminates at the southern end with a pier topped with a flat stone cap, matching a corresponding pier at the south-east corner.