Lorimar House

Lorimar House, now two separate dwellings, was built in 1854 for Benjamin Scott, with an addition around 1860 by Edmund Woodthorpe. The building is constructed of yellowish brick in Flemish bond, with painted ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high with a basement to the rear and a four-storey tower. The original house was L-shaped, with gabled wings framing the tower in the angle, and a single-storey room to the right. A four-bay addition, set back slightly, was made to the left, with the left bay narrower and further recessed.

The design is in the Italianate style, incorporating a tabled plinth, rusticated corner pilasters, a ground floor entablature, and console-bracketed oversailing eaves. A single-storey entrance to the right of the tower features a long flight of stone steps with a chequered bottom step and flat coped side walls, surmounted by lions couchant. The entrance has a four-panel double door with fanlight under a keyed archivolt, sitting on pilasters with capitals. The ground floor windows are round-arched sashes with archivolts on pilasters with capitals, and corbelled sills. The single-storey room on the right has quadrupled windows, and the gabled bay features a flat-roofed bay window with tripled windows. On the first floor, the windows are square-headed with wooden cross-windows, incorporating arched top lights within shouldered surrounds and consoled segmental pediments to the gabled bay. Roof consoles spring from the window surrounds of the left-hand windows. The tower has windows similar to the ground floor and the fourth floor, with keyed archivolts, columns, and paired side pilasters. The single-storey room has a corrugated asbestos sheet roof, hipped at the right end. The building has various ashlar-corniced stacks.

The rear elevation has six bays, set forward on the right, and is plainer. It features flat-arched windows with four-pane sashes to the addition, and sashes with glazing bars to the earlier part. A tripartite window is located on the ground floor to the left. A verandah is present to the addition, with a decorative S-section iron balustrade and slender fluted columns supporting a glass roof; this was formerly extended further left. An iron staircase, of a similar style, leads up to a door in the left return. The entrance to No. 69 is on the left return.

Inside No. 71, the original open-well staircase rises beneath the tower, with an open string and twisted wooden balusters. A front left room contains a decorative fireplace and cornice, while the single-storey room has a false decorative fireplace and an Adam-style ceiling. The front room of No. 69, formerly a music room, was decorated in the Pompeian style by Crace, featuring panelled pilasters, a heavy floral cornice, and a ceiling border. The top floor of the tower was originally intended to be an observatory.