Eaton House And Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers And Gates Glenavon And Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers And Gates

Eaton House and Glenavon are a pair of attached houses built in 1853. They are constructed of limestone ashlar with ridge stacks and have pantile and slate hipped roofs. The houses follow a double-depth plan and are designed in an Italianate style. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window front. The facade is symmetrical, featuring outer towers with attic storeys. These towers have clasping rusticated quoin strips, modillion cornices and panelled parapets. Similar strips flank the middle windows, leading to wide timber segmental pediments. Cornices above each floor break out over the quoins, the first-floor sill band, and a modillion cornice connecting the pediments. The towers have open, keyed arches leading to tiled entrance lobbies with side niches. They include panelled, semicircular-arched timber doorways with plate-glass fanlights and large, two-leaf doors with lozenge panels in the lower sections. The ground-floor windows are matching, with two-over-two-pane sashes and margin bars, and there is a blind window in the centre. First-floor windows have strapwork balconies with panelled dies, bowed to the towers, and six-over-six-pane sashes. Second-floor windows in the towers have architraves with ears and curved shoulders and segmental pediments, with square windows above, featuring eared and shouldered surrounds and three-over-three-pane sashes. The side elevations are rendered and have a central tripartite stair light, with projecting four-storey towers to the rear incorporating linked oculi in the attic. The rear elevation has an arcade of sixteen semicircular-arched attic windows on square piers, and oculi at the ends. The interior remains uninspected. Attached to the front garden are squared, coursed rubble walls, battered at the base with bracketed coping, along with ashlar piers and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. The houses form part of a group of four imposing dwellings facing Clifton Down.