91, Portsmouth Road

No. 91 Portsmouth Road is a large semi-detached house built in 1883 by architect R. Norman Shaw. The building features orange-red brick at the lower level, with brown fishscale tile hanging above and plain tiled roofs. It has two storeys and attics, with two gabled dormers on the left and a flat-roofed dormer to the right of the center. The right side of the house has three storeys, highlighted by a gabled projecting square bay.

The house includes massive cross-ridge stacks to the right of the center, along with multiple stacks at the rear and on the left end. There are two gabled dormers on the left, which have leaded casement windows. A notable feature is the six-light window at the end, which wraps around the corners, along with mullioned and transomed leaded windows below that break through the eaves and are supported on roughcast coves.

The right-hand projecting bay has continuous leaded fenestration across the second and first floors, with four lights on either side of a moulded central mullion on the second floor, and two-light return windows wrapping around the corners. The first floor features four mullioned and transomed lights arranged similarly. On the ground floor, there are two three-light mullioned and transomed windows to the right of center and a projecting square bay window to the left.

The entrances have wide, panelled doors at each end, set under four-centre arched heads with moulded surrounds. To the left of the left-hand door is a four-light flanking window, and to the right of the right-hand door is a two-light flanking window. The right-hand return front displays a jettied gable and an asymmetrical arrangement of windows. The rear includes dormers and a shallow canted bay window. There is a flat-roofed link on the right-hand end connecting to "The Cottage," which is not of special interest. This property was formerly listed as one item with 1 and 2 Rectory Place.