The Western Pavilion And Attached Railings

The Western Pavilion is a single house dating from 1827-28, designed by Amon Henry Wilds for his own residence. It is constructed of stucco with a lead roof, now painted.

The house presents an eleven-window facade to Western Terrace and is designed in the style of the Royal Pavilion. The entrance is flanked by two bays of contrasting design. The entrance itself is pointed-arched with cusping, topped with an Oriental-style embattled parapet. Behind the parapet, the first-floor window is set back in the shape of a Christmas cracker. To the left of the entrance is a bay with a near three-quarter circular plan, containing three ground-floor windows with cusped pointed arches, the central one blind. These windows are framed by pilasters with a lower section resembling giant fasces, with fluting and blocking. The first-floor windows have flat arches with chamfered corners, set in pairs within rectangular architraves, with four central windows blind. The eaves are deeply bracketed, and the roof is topped with an onion dome and finial. To the right of the entrance, the house is divided into two parts, the second set back slightly. Each part is marked out by octagonal columns terminating in elaborate Indian-style finials. The first part features a single-storey canted bay with three cusped pointed-arched windows, the central one blind, and a roll-moulded cornice and embattled parapet. Above are three windows with chamfered corners and an embattled parapet. The second part has similar windows to the west front, and a blind embattled storey band separates the floors. Facing south, there is one window on each floor, both flat-arched with roll-moulded cornices, and a blind embattled storey band. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The house includes attached railings.