Bouverie House

Bouverie House is a house built around 1855 by the architect Thomas Hellyer for his own use. It is constructed of yellow brick with red, white, and green brick and stucco dressings. The building features a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick lateral stacks. It has two storeys with an attic and three bays. There are steps leading up to a central porch, which is adorned with attached pilasters that have decorative capitals and a finialled balustrade that extends to the left. A cill band runs along the first floor, and the windows are 4-pane sashes with segmental heads. The central attic window, flanked by brackets, rises through the eaves in a shaped gable. The broad lateral stacks include attic windows set in a central panel.

Inside, the house boasts lavish original detailing, including panelled doors in architraves with ribbon and fruit mouldings, decorative cornices and ceiling mouldings, ornate fireplaces with mirrored overmantels, and a classical-style frieze in the entrance vestibule along with medallions in the lower hall. There are niches in the octagonal landing, a stained glass stair window, and moulded balusters and a handrail-curtail on the stair. Hellyer and his family moved into this house in 1855, making it an unusual mid-19th century residence designed, built, and occupied by an important local architect.