Littleshaw Including Olympus And Terrace Walling

Littleshaw, including Olympus and terrace walling, is a house built between 1901 and 1902 by Leonard Stokes for himself. The building features roughcast walls and plain tiled roofs, with tall rendered stacks at both ends and the center. It has an L-shaped plan with an entrance court located in the re-entrant angle to the north. The house is built into a hillside, with retaining terrace walling on the west side. It has three storeys with attics in gables and under dormers on the west side, and two storeys with attics under hipped and flat roof dormers on the south and north sides.

On the entrance front to the north, there are two flat roof dormers on the left and one flat roof and one hipped dormer on the right wing. The center right features a hipped roof bay with a jettied first floor. To the right of center in the left range, there is an arched recessed porch containing a part-glazed door. The main entrance is located to the right of the angle in a pent roof porch.

The south front has two storeys, with a flat roof casement lucarne window on the right and a two-storey gable front on the left that includes a semi-circular attic casement window in the gable. There is a hipped roof single storey verandah at the left end.

The west front features a three-storey angle bay with a crowning gable at the center. The base of the angle bay has a semi-circular arch with a portcullis-type screen in front. Above, there are five light sash window bands across the first and second floors, with a square window in the gable. The gable has projecting coping and onion-shaped stone angle finials. Below the south front are terraced retaining walls with a central arch, and the porch is overgrown with vegetation at the time of the resurvey.