Royal Villa

Royal Villa is a house built between 1839 and 1840 for J.C. Eddels by William Saxby. It features a rendered exterior and a slate roof. The building has two storeys, a garret, and a basement, topped with a cornice and parapet that includes three pierced panels on the double pitch roof. Notable architectural elements include two full-height elliptical bows and segmentally headed recesses. The first floor has three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor features two large margin light sashes with chamfered rebates. The central entrance has a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it, and there is a glazing bar sash window in the basement. To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a margin light sash window.

James Creed Eddels, a hosier from Piccadilly, London, purchased and developed the land that became Vale Square starting in August 1839. He initially lived at the existing No. 5 Vale Square before moving to No. 13 (Royal Villa) in the summer of 1840, by which time Nos. 51 and 52 had already been constructed. Vale Square was intended to feature three rows of four-storey houses around a central garden, all to be built by William Saxby. The original plan was amended in 1846 to allow for the construction of Christ Church (designed by G.G. Scott) on the western side of the Vale. A total of eleven houses were built between 1841 and 1846, with an additional five completed by March 1850, finalizing the development.