77, Heath Road

This is a house located at 77 Heath Road, built around 1834 by James Taylor, with 20th-century alterations and additions. The building is made of brick, covered in stucco, and has slate roofs. It has two storeys and was originally symmetrical with seven bays, but the addition on the left has disrupted this symmetry. The house is designed in the Gothick style.

On the garden side, the three central bays are symmetrical and feature a projecting gabled porch beneath a central gable. The porch includes angle buttresses, a blocked Tudor-arched doorway, and a similarly arched window above, with a 20th-century window below a Y-traceried fanlight. The first floor has blocked pointed-arched openings with term-like figures. The bays flanking the porch have full-height sashes with glazing bars on the ground floor, while the first floor has recessed areas with 20th-century windows. The sixth and seventh bays project, featuring a pointed-arched full-height sash with glazing bars on the ground floor, a 16-pane French window on the right, and a pointed-arched opening with a 20th-century window to the left and a wide four-light 20th-century window to the right on the first floor. The building has an embattled parapet. The first and second bays have a recessed ground floor behind a circa 1920 colonnade and a mansard roof with two 20th-century windows above.

The roadside elevation shows a central gabled porch with a doorway under an arch, flanked by gabled porches with blocked pointed-arched entrances and a 20th-century window on the outer side. On the first floor, the central three bays have 20th-century windows, while the outer bays have mansard roofs with narrow 20th-century windows. An additional bay has been added to the right.

This house was the home of James Taylor, who lived from 1795/6 to 1846. He built the adjacent Church of St Charles of Borromeo and played a significant role in many pioneering early 19th-century Catholic building projects. The house is included in the register for its group value only.