Lennoxwood

Lennoxwood is a house dating from around 1910, designed by Charles E Mallows for Captain and Mrs Macgildowny, with later 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of purple-red brick in English bond, with tile dressings, and has swept plain-tile roofs with tile corbels and brick stacks.

The house has a butterfly plan, featuring a central circular hall and an entrance in each angle, with the main entrance on the north-west side. A service block connects the west and south wings. The building is principally two storeys high, with the west wing having a basement and upper floor treated as an attic, and the service range partly single-storey with an attic. Each wing has two bays, the principal wings each accommodating a single room on the ground floor.

The architectural style is Arts and Crafts, characterised by circular brick and stone steps leading to the entrances, a nail-studded and strap-hinged board main entrance door, small-pane leaded glazing to other doors, tile arches and decorative details over doors, decorative iron lanterns and rainwater heads, pegged wood-framed mullion windows of two to six lights with leaded metal casements, tile sills and dripmoulds, and hipped roofs to first-floor windows, some of which rise through the eaves and are clustered in groups of three at the angles of the principal wings. Tall chimneys, some tapering with triangular-headed flue openings, are also a feature.

The north-west (entrance) elevation incorporates a stair cross-window above the door. A multi-gabled service range is located to the rear right, including a projecting, lower, hipped-roofed former larder wing, and incorporates later 20th-century alterations. The north-east elevation features a single-storey canted bay window at the outer end of each wing. The south-east elevation has a continuous first-floor window beneath three hipped roofs, flanked by external lateral stacks, and a further entrance at the left end of the left-hand wing.

Inside, the entrance hall has vertical wall panelling, a shallow domed ceiling, and wooden steps with vaulted entrances leading to each wing. The interior retains ledged plank doors, moulded cover strips and original door furniture, as well as original decorative window fittings and tile sills. Most fireplaces have been removed, but an original "quoined" tile fireplace survives in the study. The house also includes plain cornices, a curving stair with an octagonal moulded newel post and wooden handrail, rising into a circular first-floor hall with an arched niche.