High Chimneys

High Chimneys is a house, now converted into flats, dating to around 1910 and designed by Charles E Mallows for Captain and Mrs Macgildowny. It was subsequently altered in the mid-20th century and again in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of thin red brick in English bond, with tile dressings, and has swept plain-tile roofs with tile corbels and brick stacks. It has a rectangular plan with an entrance on the north side and a former service wing to the north-west, and a garden elevation on the east side.

The house is two storeys and an attic, designed in an Arts and Crafts style. It features circular tile and stone steps leading to the main entrance, which has a nail-studded and strap-hinged board door within a deep, round-arched, hollow-moulded and quoined reveal. Small-pane leaded glazing is found on other doors, and pegged wood-framed mullion windows, of two to seven lights, have leaded metal casements, tile sills, and dripmoulds. First-floor windows are mostly set under the eaves. The roofscape is complex, with gabled, hipped, and half-hipped roofs to individual bays, as well as hipped-roofed, tile-hung dormers. Tall chimneys are present, with clustered flues and corbelled heads.

The north elevation has four bays, with a lower former service wing projecting on the right. The paired projecting central bays contain an entrance on the left and a transomed stair window on the right. The east (garden) elevation has four bays, with wide projecting bays of two storeys, gabled, and having internal porches at the inner corners. A four-leaf French window is set under a pentice across the centre bays, flanked by large external chimneys with offsets and small windows on their inner returns at attic level. The south elevation has two, followed by four bays. The lower four-bay block on the right features a continuous seven-light window to the ground floor of what was formerly a living room, and a loggia on the left.

The interior retains original features, including round-arched strap-hinged wooden doors on the ground floor, and board doors with moulded cover strips, all with original door furniture. Windows retain original decorative fittings and tile sills, with polished stone sills to the principal ground-floor rooms. Original fireplaces remain, including an inglenook to the former living room, which has a Tudor-arched inner stone fireplace, and a lunette-shaped fireplace with a corbelled mantlepiece and over-cupboard in what is now flat no. 1. Chamfered beams and original cupboards and shelves are present in the principal ground-floor rooms. An open-well stair has an open, trellised balustrade with chamfered members and large-scantling newel posts.