36 Tyndall's Park Road

36 Tyndall's Park Road is a former villa, now part of a university faculty building, dating from the mid-19th century and probably designed by George Gay.

The building is constructed of squared, coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, ashlar ridge stacks, and a slate hipped roof. It follows a double-depth plan and comprises two storeys plus an attic and basement.

The Italianate-style building occupies a corner site with prominent side elevations. The front elevation facing Tyndall's Park Road is dominated by a left-hand gable with rusticated quoins, a plinth, ground-floor cornice band, first-floor sill band, frieze, and bracketed stone eaves. To the right of the gable is a doorcase with rusticated quoins leading to a balustrade and balcony. The doorway itself is keyed round-arched with a plate-glass fanlight and double four-panel door. The ground-floor features keyed segmental-arched windows with aprons; a three-light bow window occupies the gable and is topped with a balustrade. A single window to the right of the door has brackets supporting a balcony with a removed balustrade. The first-floor windows are round-arched with cornices; the gable contains triple windows beneath a segmental pediment, with single windows to the middle and right. A round-arched attic window in the gable has a shouldered architrave, echoed by a similar dormer window on the right of the roof, which also features a cornice and scrolled top. Two ashlar stacks rise to the ridge.

The matching right return facing Woodland Road has a right-hand gable with three windows to the left, all of plate-glass sashes. A 1980s entrance to the Faculty of Arts/Arts Complex adjoins this elevation; this single-storey addition features a central glazed entrance framed by columns and a plain projecting canopy and cornice. A glazed pitched roof at first-floor height is attached to the side walls of the adjoining villas. First-floor windows have been enlarged to doors with inserted stairs and a walkway. These late-20th-century additions are not of special interest.

The left return displays a tall stained-glass stair light with margin panes and segmental-arched basement windows.

The interior retains its original lobby at the Tyndall's Park Road entrance, fitted with a glazed screen of etched glass and a half-glazed door. This opens to a tiled central stair hall featuring a lateral open stone dogleg stair with cast-iron balusters and a substantial newel. The hall and stair are finished with a modillion cornice. Six-panel doors with panelled reveals lead to the principal rooms, which retain mid-19th-century joinery including rebated shutters. Throughout the building, plaster moulded ceiling roses, cornices, and other period detailing survive. The room facing Tyndall's Park Road contains a fireplace with a plain marble chimney piece. A plaque in the hallway records: "ST MARY THE VIRGIN / TYNDALLS PARK / THIS BUILDING WAS PURCHASED BY / THE CONGREGATION OF ST MARY'S / AT THE TERMINATION OF / THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 / AND GIVEN TO THE PARISH / AS A THANKOFFERING FOR VICTORIOUS PEACE, / AND FOR USE AS A CHURCH HOUSE / IT WAS OPENED NOVEMBER 5TH 1919 / FRED NORTON M.A. VICAR." The upper floors and basement have been converted to office use, though principal fittings and joinery have been retained.

The property boundary is marked by a rubblestone garden wall with coping, partially removed to create an entrance on Woodland Road. Stone gate piers with caps stand to Tyndall's Park Road.