Annesley House

Annesley House is a villa, later adapted for use as a School of Seamanship and Navigation, and now a house, built in 1844 by Thomas Ellis Owen. The building is stuccoed with Welsh slate roofs, hipped to the west wing. It has an irregular plan with an east wing and a west wing.

The north elevation facing Sussex Terrace features a two-storey lean-to section attached to the west wing. A projecting porch is on the right of the lean-to, with three narrow arched openings separated by broad stuccoed pilasters. It contains a recessed 4-panelled door with overlight, and a small round-headed sash window to the left, topped with a panelled parapet featuring Vitruvian scrolls on its returns. Small round-headed openings with iron lattice grilles are on each return of the porch. To the left of the porch is a sash window under a flat stuccoed arch. The first floor to the right has a two-leaf, four-pane casement with a transom and fixed round-headed light, also set under a round stuccoed arch within a gable with shaped stuccoed brackets to the projecting verge. To the left of the recessed west wing, a four-pane sash is set under the eaves. On the left return of the north elevation, sashes are present at ground and first floors, each set under a flat stuccoed arch. A sash and a first-floor four-pane sash are within the west wing face, also set under eaves. The recessed central part of the elevation has a wide sash; the first floor features a two-leaf, six-pane casement. The projecting north face of the east wing has a rusticated ground floor that continues on the left return. A sash is set under a flat stuccoed arch with incised voussoirs, with a plain band course and a moulded first-floor sillband containing a blinded window. A two-leaf, six-pane attic casement is set within a facing gable, with projecting bracketed verge. Further left, the return has a tripartite window with three narrow sashes under a flat stuccoed arch with incised voussoirs, accompanied by a plain band course, a first-floor sillband with two sashes each set within a moulded architrave with a keystone, a moulded band course, and projecting bracketed eaves. To the lower wing’s left, three sashes are on ground and first floors, each set under a flat stuccoed arch.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.