Springfield Villa

Springfield Villa is a detached house dating to 1842, with alterations made in the 20th century. It may have been designed by James Wilson. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a concrete tile roof and slender stacks featuring machicolation below the cornices of the porch, right and rear elevations.

The building has a complex plan and comprises two storeys and a lower ground floor, with a two-bay entrance front. The windows are three/three-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. A two-storey gabled porch, situated in the angle to the left of a projecting central wing, features a pierced stone finial and a dated shield to a stepped gable. The front of the porch has a first floor window above a flat-arched dripmould with block stops and sunk spandrels beneath a Tudor arch. It has double four-panel doors and an overlight incorporating an integral lamp.

The projecting central wing has a pierced stone finial to a Dutch gable with double convex curves on each side, and a pierced trefoil to the apex above paired first floor windows. French windows open onto a pierced stone balcony at the raised ground floor level, and paired four/four-pane sash windows are present on the lower ground floor. Stringcourses rise to form dripmoulds over the upper floor windows and over paired three/three-pane sashes to a mezzanine floor in the right-hand block. The left return has a similar finial and a pierced quatrefoil to a serpentine Dutch gable, along with paired windows.

A projecting central block to the west garden front exhibits a good swept canopy over a cast iron trellised balcony to the upper ground floor, a narrow-paned conservatory porch, and a pierced stone balcony similar to that at the front. The interior of the house has not been inspected.