27, Melville Street

MELVILLE STREET 1. 1577 (North Side) No 27 SZ 5992 3/262

II GV

1. Circa 1830/40 villa enlarged mid C19 and later. Two storeys stucco faced. Low pitch hipped slate roof with lean-to slate roof added over built out front. Three windows on first floor, recessed, sash, glazing bars intact. Ground floor projects in very large lead roofed bay of five lights to front with glazing bars and large fixed side windows also with glazing bars, and a two storey wing has also been added to the West. North garden front to Bellevue Road qv: has frieze, cornice and parapet returned on side walls. The centre of the facade projects slightly and the Western way has one window on this front. Three windows to main block: superimposed bays of 3 lights each to the East, sash, glazing bars, plain strips, cornice over the first floor one and in the centre of the ground floor bay a French window. The Western windows (including wing) are recessed, sash, with glazing bars on first floor, the one on the main block having an architrave surround, and block consoles to the sill. French windows to ground floor. In the centre of the first floor is an original French window with marginal glazing bars, architrave surround and pediment on scrolled consoles. It gives on to the roof of a rather crude Ionic porch with free standing columns and a small pediment in the centre of the entablature to the front. Recessed panelled and stained glass door set in architrave surround. The house was used by Queen Victoria's retinue on one of her earliest visits to the Island.

Nos 25 to 28 (consec) with No 1 Trinity Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5968892559