1 And 2, Macaulay Buildings

The Macaulay Buildings comprise a pair of semi-detached villas built between 1819 and 1830, with 20th-century additions. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs. Their design features a broad frontage with double segmental bows and a wide, single-span roof incorporating cross-wings. The rear is a full story deeper than the front, reflecting a slope across the site.

Each villa is two storeys high with an attic and basement, and each has two windows. They contain glazing bar sash windows; sixteen-pane windows are found at each level on the bows, a twelve-pane window is centrally positioned above the original panelled doors which have shallow transom lights. There are cornice hoods supported by brackets above the windows. No. 1 has a wide slated dormer incorporating two casements and a lay-light to the basement. A broad mid platband runs across the facade, alongside a lintel, frieze, cornice, blocking course and parapet. Two ashlar stacks are positioned at each end. The gabled return on the right side features a sixteen-pane sash window at three levels, with two plain sashes to the lower ground floor. The cornice returns and stops at the slightly projecting gable end. The left return incorporates inserted nine-pane lights across each floor and a large single-storey gabled extension with a deep sixteen-pane sash window, along with an additional stack in the re-entrant space between the main and projecting gables. The rear wall is plain, featuring nine- and twelve-pane sashes above a flat-roofed extension to No. 1. No. 2 has twelve- and sixteen-pane sashes above two plain sashes, with paired plain sashes at ground floor level. A door and conservatory are located at the lower ground floor. The extension to No. 2 has paired plain sashes at two levels. The interiors have not been inspected.

These villas are part of a group of three similar, but not identical, properties. They were developed by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell, a solicitor, on land previously known as `The Nedges'. He acquired the land in 1819 and the first house was completed in 1825, with the rest finished by 1830. The buildings offer extensive views to both the front and rear and have remained externally largely unchanged.