Heathfield And Attached Gateway And Terrace

This is a detached Italianate house, built around 1845. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a shallow-pitched, wide-eaved slate roof, featuring pedimented and bracketed cornices to the stacks. The house is square in plan, with projections.

The south entrance front, facing St Stephen's Road, is symmetrical with three windows. It has raised surrounds to the six/six-pane sash windows, with the first-floor windows being eared. A sill band with bracketed sills runs across the first floor, and the outer ranges have sliding louvered shutters. The ground-floor windows have cornices on consoles. A projecting porch features a blocking course, a heavy cornice, and large fluted consoles flanking a semicircular arch with a keystone and raised surround, above a glazed two-vertical-panel door and plain fanlight. The south-west return has a full-height canted bay.

The left return, facing Mount Road, has a shallow gabled projection with a pierced flattened heart-shaped feature to the apex. This section features paired semicircular arched two/two-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars, panelled aprons, and keystones under cornices on consoles; similar cornices are to the ground-floor French windows. A stepped platband runs between. A set-back range to the right has an elaborate feature below an external moulded stack, including a semicircular arched recess with a keystone up to the platband, flanked by pilasters to the ground floor, and a smaller arched recess to the first floor, flanked by scrolled supports below the eaves. The stack pierces the eaves. A set-back range to the left has plate glass sash windows to each floor.

The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Subsidiary features include stone steps leading to the porch and terraces with stone balustrades featuring pierced semicircular headed panels. A good Roman Doric gateway stands at the corner, with a blocking course, cornice, guilloche frieze with paterae, supported by fluted columns 'in-antis', and a pedestrian gate with long/short railings, alongside similar railings between the columns and antae.