The Lawn Including Garden Boundary Wall And Gate Piers To North

House, circa 1853, architect not known. Part of a crescent of Italianate detached villas overlooking Camden Park, which was laid out around 1853 in imitation of Decimus Burton's Calverley Park. Camden Park was planned for the Marquess of Camden, though the five Italianate houses were probably designed by another architect and built by 1863.

The Lawn is a 2-storey Italianate villa of double-depth plan with stuccoed brick walls and a low-pitched hipped slate roof with lead rolled hips and ridge. The deep eaves are supported on brackets with acanthus leaf decoration. Tall stuccoed chimney stacks have modillion cornices and square yellow clay pots.

The plan comprises two principal rooms on the front facing south, with the east room featuring a canted bay and the west room a verandah. Behind is the stair hall with the main entrance on the north elevation, flanked by rooms on both sides. The east side contains a large conservatory; the west side has a lower service wing set back, with a small single-storey range around a courtyard on the extreme left.

The south garden elevation is asymmetrical with 2 and 3 windows. The east end features a large 2-storey canted bay, with stringcourses and eaves cornice continuing around it. The ground floor on the west has an ornate cast-iron verandah with thin posts and ornate spandrels supporting a tented roof, with pierced cast-iron steps up to the terrace. The lower service wing beyond is plainer, with 19th-century tripartite sash windows on each floor. The east side displays an ornate wooden conservatory with a canted front, gabled side, 3-centred arch lights, dentil cornice and elaborate cast-iron cresting.

All elevations feature rusticated and moulded quoins, moulded stringcourse at first floor level on console brackets, and moulded string alcove at first floor sill level. All 19th-century sash windows lack glazing bars and sit in moulded architraves.

The north elevation is asymmetrical, with a shallow porch featuring pilasters, a round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts, cornice and parapet. The inner door is 19th-century moulded and panelled with side lights and overlight with console brackets. A projecting stack stands to the left of the porch, with a sash window in shallow projection to the right on both floors.

The front garden boundary wall to the north is mid-19th-century rendered with moulded rendered coping, ramping up at the west end to a pair of carriageway gate piers. These piers have large moulded caps and early 20th-century wrought-iron gates.

The interior, though not fully inspected, is largely intact with original joinery including panelled doors and chimneypieces, complete plaster cornices, and an elaborate cast-iron balustrade to the staircase with a wreathed mahogany handrail. One room features later 19th-century Jacobean style panelling and a large carved wooden chimneypiece with a pilastered overmantel.