Weston Hill

Weston Hill is a detached house dated 1852, constructed from limestone ashlar with a steep slate roof, flat lead to the center, and hexagonal moulded stacks at the rear. This asymmetrical 'Jacobethan' house has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-bay front. A returned cornice follows the contours of the facade around a canted bay to the right, forming an eaves cornice over the central range and rising to create a hood-mould over a tall lancet window on the left, where a ground floor plat-band serves as a sill band.

The house has two stepped forward-facing shaped gables with semicircular heads and pendants that were once finials. The larger right gable includes narrow paired two/two-pane sash windows in a raised surround with a shield in a pediment, similar to the gable above. A two-storey canted bay features paired first floor windows and a shield on the gabled parapet, while the ground floor windows are transomed. The left gable has a slit window in the attic, a tall lancet window on the first floor, and a two-light window on the ground floor.

A moulded string course between the gables forms an eaves cornice over a three-light stone-mullioned window adorned with a Jacobean scroll and a dated shield above a cornice on brackets. An enclosed porch features a shaped gable, double one-panel doors, a plain fanlight, and a large pyramidal keystone above a semicircular arch. The right return displays a Jacobean scroll at the center of the eaves over a two-light first floor window, with a similar scrolled pediment as seen at the front, and a ground floor window that matches the one at the front of the canted bay. The interior has not been inspected. This house is a highly characteristic example of an early Victorian suburban home, designed in a picturesque historicist style reminiscent of the work of James Wilson.