3 And 4, Hillside

This is a pair of attached houses, now offices, built in the middle of the 19th century, likely designed by George Gay. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar and render, with a shared party wall and a lateral stack. They have a double-depth plan and are built in an Italianate style.

Each house is two storeys high with an attic and a basement, and features a two-window front. The design incorporates slightly projecting wings. The ground floor is banded, topped by a frieze and dentil cornice. The first floor has paired pilasters leading to a frieze and bracketed cornice. The attic storey has paired pilasters rising to pedimented tops. The entrances, located in the return, have columns supporting the first-floor entablature and panelled doors, arranged in a distyle-in-antis format with a recessed doorway. The front of the houses features flat outer bays containing tripartite round-arched windows with moulded jambs and console cornices on the first floor. The attic windows have moulded jambs to their plate-glass sashes. A decorative iron verandah sits between the outer sections, positioned across ground-floor French windows. The windows are predominantly sash windows, some with margin bars. The interior of the buildings has not been inspected. The pair is one of three matching designs.