Etherton Lawn

This is a late 1860s house, built of cream brick with red brick banding and grey, red, and black polychromatic dressings, including some sandstone. The roof is slate, with stacks featuring cream brick shafts with red brick bands. It is an Italianate style villa.

The house is approximately rectangular with a symmetrical plan, facing southwest. It has short wings projecting to the front, originally each heated by a stack on their returns; an axial stack to the left of the centre heats the principal room within. The left-end stack has a truncated shaft.

The two-storey front has gabled roofs with shaped bargeboards, a crested ridge, and deep eaves on shaped brackets. The symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front features elaborate polychromatic detail, with window voussoirs in contrasting colours. The verges of the left and right gables are decorated with a terra cotta frieze forming a pear-shaped pattern. Windows are mostly 2-pane plate glass sashes. Three ground floor centre windows are slightly recessed below polychromatic segmental arched voussoirs. Canted bay windows are present in the ground floor of the gabled projections, with sandstone heads. Slate roofs have deep eaves, surmounted by wrought iron railings. The bays contain French windows with segmental arched doors below an overlight and 2-pane flanking sashes. Above these are triple round-headed windows, the centre window wider, all with polychromatic voussoirs. The centre window of the main block is recessed below a segmental polychromatic arch, with a timber pendant over the gable.

The interior’s features are unknown due to lack of access at the time of survey, but original features may remain.

This 19th-century villa is notable for its particularly attractive and lively polychromatic exterior.