46, Mount Park Road

This is a suburban villa dating from 1886, designed for George Deal. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The house has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It features a plinth, an offset string course on the first floor, a cable moulding at sill level, modillioned sills, and recessed panels below the central and left-hand windows. The windows are sash windows, each beneath a stone lintel with a moulded soffit. The projecting, gabled bay on the left has a two-storey canted bay window, where the sashes are separated by brick piers with moulded capitals, and a steeply-pitched lozenge-slated roof, along with fretted curved bargeboards and a finial to the gable. The central bay, containing the entrance, has a moulded pointed archway with short columns, moulded capitals, and a hood mould. An internal porch has a black and white tiled pavement and a half-glazed four-panel door with side lights and overlights. The right bay has paired sash windows, those on the ground floor in a tiled, pent-roofed bay, and those above separated by a decorative-capitalled column. A single, flat-roofed two-light dormer is present, the roof to the right being hipped. External end stacks have heavy cornices. At the rear, two bays project under a half-hipped gable. The left bay has French windows leading into a conservatory, which has a renewed roof and glazing. The interior of the two front rooms on the ground floor have plaster-decorated and painted ceilings, likely dating to the late 19th century; the ceiling on the left depicts putti, grapes, and foliage, while the ceiling on the right shows roses and butterflies. Decorative marble fireplaces are also present. Further features include four-panel doors with bird-embossed plates, decorative parquet floors, an open-string stair with turned balusters and a moulded handrail with a spiral curtail, a coloured tile floor to the conservatory, and old cupboards and shelves in the kitchen. Decorative fireplaces are in the rear right room and the first floor front left room. The ceiling decoration of the two front rooms is a rare and notable feature, contributing to the building's group value.