Bella Vista

Bella Vista is a large detached Italianate house built around 1845. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a shallow pitched, hipped slate roof with moulded stacks. The house has a square plan with projections on the right side and rear, and a service wing to the left, which is now a separate property.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical six-window front. It has a cyma moulded eaves cornice, a ground floor platband, a cyma moulded plinth, and semicircular arched windows with horizontal glazing. The front façade includes rusticated quoins and paired windows in flat-arched recesses that flank a full-height projecting porch. This porch has paired windows on the first floor and a ground floor cornice over a wide fanlight with radial glazing bars and margin panes, leading to a two-vertical-panel door. The returns feature a blind window on the first floor and semicircular arched recesses with windows on the ground floor.

The projecting right return, facing south, is styled similarly and includes an open pediment, rusticated quoins, and paired windows with horizontal glazing bars. The central rear block has an open pediment with consoles supporting a dentil cornice, rusticated quoins, and two first-floor windows that open onto a balcony with a cast iron balustrade on stone brackets. Below this balcony are three full-height windows with some crown glass and a central door leading down steps to the garden.

To the left, there is a set-back range that is blank and features a 20th-century garden shelter. Above the eaves stack, this range has paired moulded shafts. The set-back range to the right has paired windows on both floors and a similar stack on the party wall with the service wing. The service wing itself has four windows, is two storeys and lower, and features plain surrounds to its semicircular arched windows. The interior has not been inspected.