20 AND 22, AVON ROAD

20 and 22 Avon Road are a pair of semi-detached houses built around 1840, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The houses are constructed of stucco with limestone dressings, featuring gabled slate roofs and a central ridge ashlar stack.

Each house is two stories high, with a basement and attic, and has a symmetrical facade with a two-window range. The facades include semicircular three-light bow windows that extend from the basement to the ground floor, topped with moulded copings. Number 20 has plate-glass sash windows, while number 22 features late 20th-century metal-frame units. Both houses have 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with sills on the first floor, and chamfered quoins on the facade and the set-back two-storey porches. The porch for number 20 has a flat roof and steps leading up to the doorway, which includes a single light above with a plate-glass sash, a late 20th-century panelled door with an integral fanlight, and a rectangular fanlight above set within a pilastered architrave with a flat stone hood supported by brackets. Number 22 has a late 20th-century glazed-in porch and a wrought-iron staircase leading up to a flat above, along with another late 20th-century door. The interior has not been inspected.