Cumberland House

This is a villa, now serving as a Natural History museum, dating from the 1830s and 1840s. It was likely designed by TE Owen. The villa is constructed of stucco and features low-pitched Welsh slate roofs, with a hipped central section and flanking parts. A rendered stack is located to the left of the centre and to the right of the right-hand part.

The exterior is two storeys and seven bays (a three-bay central section flanked by a three-bay section, with a single bay to the right). The front, facing Eastern Parade, is arranged in three slightly stepped-back parts. The central three bays feature a projecting, two-storey flat-roofed porch with three stone steps leading to a late 20th-century glass door and fanlight set under a round arch. It has a moulded architrave and paired flanking pilasters. To the left and right of the porch, on the first floor, are 16-pane sashes set under flat stuccoed arches with moulded architraves and bracketed sills. The ground floor has the same arrangement. A sillband runs at first floor level. At the centre of the porch is a four-pane sash with margin glazing, a cornice, and a block parapet.

The right-hand part, a single bay wide and taller than the central section, has rusticated quoin strips, a plinth, and a rendered capital at first floor level, with a short panelled strip above. A mullioned and transomed tripartite fixed casement is centrally positioned on the ground floor; the centre window has 18 panes, with flanking windows of 12 panes. The first floor has a similar tripartite casement, but without the transom, and with a heavy bracketed sill and incised panels below. The first-floor centre window has 12 panes, with flanking windows of 8 panes.

The left-hand part, three bays wide, has a three-panelled door to the left of the centre, approached by a single-storey, flat-roofed porch under a round stuccoed arch with a moulded architrave and flanking pilasters, topped with a stepped block parapet. To the left and right of the porch are 16-pane sashes, each set under a flat stuccoed arch with a moulded architrave and bracketed sill. A sillband is present at first floor level. Three similar sashes are on the first floor, except the sash to the right flanking the porch has 18 panes. A projecting, single-storey, flat-roofed extension is located on the right-hand side.