1,3 And 5, Whiteladies Road

Nos. 1, 3 and 5, Whitladies Road are a group of three attached houses, now used as offices, dating from 1858. Designed by George Gay, they are built of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof. The houses have a double-depth plan and are in an Italianate style. The overall design is of two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a symmetrical front and projecting end houses. Entrances are located in the returns and on the left side of the central property. The end houses have rusticated ground floors up to a frieze, and feature dentil cornices. They also have paired first-floor pilasters on panelled plinths with rosettes to the capitals, a frieze, and a bracketed cornice. The attic storey has pilasters leading to pedimented parapet sections. The entrances have distyle-in-antis Doric porches with a frieze and cornice, and modern doors. A plain doorway is found at No. 3. The outer three-light bow windows have banded pilaster jambs and balustrades. The first floor has tripartite semicircular-arched windows with console cornices and panelled jambs while the ground floor has plain windows with architraves and consoles. Tripartite attic windows are present externally, with panelled jambs and pedimented three-part parapets above, and swagged wreaths to the middle. The windows are largely 2/2-pane sashes. The interior includes entrances that open to a central, dogleg staircase with wrought-iron decorative balusters, modillion cornices and six-panel doors.