Petham House

Petham House is a large villa built around 1850 by Robert Palmer Browne for Thomas Henry Mackay, designed in the Italianate style. The building is stuccoed and features a hipped slate roof with nine tall stuccoed chimneystacks. It consists of two storeys and a semi-basement, with an L-shaped service wing that was originally two storeys but has been reduced to one.

The north or entrance front has three bays, with the central bay projecting and featuring a massive porte-cochere. There is a bracket eaves cornice, and the windows are sashes with verticals only, set in moulded architraves with ears and feet. The central first-floor window is tripartite, while the ground floor windows have cornices and panelled aprons beneath, attached to the plinth. The porte-cochere is adorned with a deep modillion cornice, corner brackets, and a keystone with a carved hand grasping a dagger. To the right, there is a one-bay section with a round-headed window.

The garden front has six windows, including three in a full-height canted bay to the right, and a section to the left with one casement window. Inside, original features include a well staircase with balusters featuring an anthemion motif and column principals in cast iron, elaborate cornices, doorcases with architraves that include paterae, and fireplaces.