9, Grand Avenue

This is a house, built between 1900 and 1903, and subsequently altered, possibly after war damage, and now divided into flats. The architect was A. Faulkner, and the builder was William Willett. It is constructed in a Surrey vernacular style. The house is primarily red brick, with the first floor tile hung on the two bays to the left. It has a steeply pitched concrete tile roof with sprocketed eaves. The building has an L-shape, with two gabled bays projecting forward to the right, containing the entrance in the angle. The house is two storeys high with an attic. There are two bays wide on each floor (2:2). It features mullioned and mullion and transom windows with multiple panes, and a 4-light flat-roofed dormer in the roof on the right. The gable ends have 3-light windows. The right-hand end bay is a two-storey, fully glazed bow window with a dentil cornice and tile-hung plinths; other windows have 6 lights on the first floor, and 8 lights to the left of the entrance on the ground floor. There is a canted bay window on the ground floor to the right, also with a dentil cornice. A particularly fine cantilever porch is located in the angle of the building, resembling a tester with an ovolo moulded cornice, arched heads with drops, and carved surface decoration to the arch-head doorway. The original 4-panel door is retained with upper lights.