Tylehurst

Tylehurst is a detached house built around 1800, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, and the roof is not visible, featuring moulded stacks at the gable ends. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range on the garden front. A coped parapet surrounds the building, except on the north side, and rises to meet three stacks. The windows are six-over-six pane sash windows. The south garden front has a more elaborate cornice, a lintel frieze, and a sill band on the first floor. The left bay projects forward and has a tall narrow window on the right return. The sliding louvred blinds have scalloped edges on the top rails. Near the angle, there is an elaborately glazed door with margin lights and latticed centres in both the door and the overlight, which has a hinged shutter featuring trellis panelling. The trellised porch, which has a similar scalloped frieze to the sliding shutters, is topped with a 20th-century glass hipped roof. The angled north entrance facade includes two windows on the main block and one on the forward wing of the L-plan. There is a six-panel door in the angle, set in an enclosed 20th-century porch that reflects the margin pane style of glazing. The wing attached to the north was added in the late 19th century. The interior has not been inspected, but a survey by the Bath Preservation Trust indicates the presence of a stone staircase, a drawing room with lozenge-enriched doors and shutter doors, and original plasterwork. The house was originally known as Acacia Villa, and it is suggested that John Pinch the Younger may have designed it.