Grafton Lodge No. 20 And Grafton Lodge

A pair of symmetrical houses, numbers 20 and Grafton Lodge, built in the 1840s to 1850s. They were possibly designed by James Wilson. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate roofs, tall moulded chimneys with engaged octagonal shafts, and hand-thrown chimney pots on the party wall. They are in a Tudor Gothic style.

Number 20, on the left, is a double-depth plan with a set-back lower porch to its left return. It is two storeys high with an attic, a raised ground floor over a semi-basement, and features a two-window range. It has a moulded coped parapet, a moulded string course, small-paned two-light casement windows with overlights; ground floor windows are French windows with label moulds and balconettes. The porch, originally single-storey, now has a set-back upper floor without front windows, and a Tudor arched six-panelled door. Below, the semi-basement is of painted rubblestone with an eight/eight-pane sash window, connected by a bridge to street-level steps leading to the door. A driveway at semi-basement level leads to a pointed arch to the basement porch and a lean-to conservatory above. The left return features a stone finial to the gable, with the string course following the contours.

Grafton Lodge, on the right, is entered from the south side of Weston Road and has an L-shaped plan, with a style similar to number 20. It is two storeys high with an attic and basement, and a two-window range. The right-hand entrance range and left return have shouldered parapeted gables flanked by stone finials, with pierced stone finials to the apexes and a small lancet window in each attic. It has a label mould to the two-light, small-paned, first-floor window above a Tudor arched six vertical panelled door in an enclosed porch, with moulded kneelers and a similar gable above. To the left is a leaded lancet window and label mould. A set-back range to the left has a two-light casement to the first floor and a label mould to the French window below. The gabled left return facing Park Lane has a label mould to a three-light first-floor window. A canted bay with moulded coping to the parapet and string course features three Tudor arched margin-paned four-pane windows with crown glass, sunk spandrels, and stone mullions. The semi-basement has plain openings and plate glass sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.