Heywood

Heywood is a house that has been converted into the American Community School. It was originally built in the early 18th century and underwent alterations and encasements in the mid-19th century, with additional extensions added in the 20th century. The exterior is rendered and features hipped slate roofs, with rendered stacks located to the left and at the centre rear. The building has two storeys above a basement and a square bracket eaves band.

The main front of the house has seven bays, with the centre three bays projecting in a pedimented break. There is a "bulls eye" window in the tympanum of the pediment, and the first and ground floors have glazing bar sash windows set in projecting architrave surrounds, while the basement features arched windows. At the centre, there are double three-quarter glazed doors in a moulded surround, which are sheltered by a single-storey, balustraded portico supported by four Doric columns, all set on a rusticated plinth with a flight of seven steps leading up to it.

On the left-hand return front, there is an angle bay window with a tripartite glazing bar sash window on the ground floor. The garden front consists of nine bays, with the outer bays recessed and a steep pediment above the recessed centre bay. The glazing bar sash windows have projecting architrave surrounds with cill brackets on the outer first-floor bays, and the centre features a tripartite sash window. Ground floor angle bay windows are located on either side of central casements, with arched windows at the front of the bays adorned with husk garland surrounds and ribbon decoration in the spandrels. There is a two-storey 20th-century extension on the left side.

Inside, some of the ground floor rooms have Adam style moulded ceilings, and there are Ionic pilasters in the ground floor room on the right, along with broken pediments on the doorcases.