5, Norman Avenue

No. 5 Norman Avenue is a house built around the 1890s, featuring red brick with freestone dressings and a clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. It has a brick chimney and showcases an eclectic late Victorian style. The house has a double depth plan, with the entrance and stair hall on the right, a drawing room on the left, and a dining room along with a service wing at the back.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and presents an asymmetrical two-bay front. On the left side, there is a large canted bay adorned with stone pilasters and traceried panels, topped with a balustrade and a gable featuring pierced bargeboards and a traceried pointed arch window. To the right, a porch has a round arch flanked by colonnettes that rise to pinnacles, with a moulded terracotta inscription in between. Above the porch is an ornate turret with pairs of pilasters and narrow elliptical arched windows, along with traceried panels above. The turret is capped with a moulded stone cornice and a circular stone attic turret that has elliptically arched windows and a conical tiled roof topped with a copper finial. The windows throughout include mullion-transom designs with stained glass top lights.

Inside, the vestibule features cusped rear arches at the windows, and there is a screen to the hall that includes stained glass panels. The staircase is fitted with moulded balusters, and the doorcases are also moulded with cast-iron overdoors. The drawing room boasts a marble chimneypiece with a Tudor arch.