Bayfield House

Bayfield House is a detached house dating from around 1830, with later 19th-century additions. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a steeply pitched slate roof, featuring two two/two pane sash windows in dormers and a flat lead centre with moulded stacks to the coped gable ends. The house has a rectangular, double-depth plan with rear additions.

The three-storey, attic, and basement building has a symmetrical three-window front. The exterior features a coped parapet, cornice, stepped frieze, moulded second-floor sill band, a moulded impost string course rising over semicircular arched windows, a ground floor platband, and banded rustication to the ground floor. Six/six pane sash windows to the second floor incorporate sliding louvered shutters; plate glass sashes are present elsewhere, with sliding shutters also flanking the porch. The fanlights over the full-height first-floor windows have margin panes and two radial glazing bars. A projecting porch has Doric columns in antis supporting a cornice and frieze, with a moulded edge to a balcony on cast iron brackets. A cast iron balustrade, articulated by trellised piers with semicircular heads over anthemion motifs, extends forward over the porch and spans the first floor. A small circular window with radial glazing bars is present to the left return of the porch. Blind windows with matching mouldings are located to the returns of the main block. A late 19th-century conservatory has been added to the rear. The interior was not inspected during listing. Subsidiary features include pedimented and fielded gate piers to the front wall. Bayfield House is one of the larger houses in the late Georgian development of Bathwick Hill, and its design reflects Greek Revival tendencies.