Hillside House

Hillside House is a pair of attached houses built in the mid-19th century, likely designed by George Gay. The construction is primarily limestone ashlar and render, featuring a party wall and lateral stack, with the roof largely obscured. The houses follow a double-depth plan and are executed in the Italianate style.

Each house is two storeys high with an attic and basement, and has a two-window frontage. Slightly projecting wings have a banded ground floor, a frieze, and a dentil cornice. The first floor boasts paired pilasters, a frieze, and a bracketed cornice, while the attic storey features paired pilasters supporting pedimented tops. The return entrances are distinguished by columns supporting the first-floor entablature and panelled doors. No.2 incorporates a distyle-in-antis design with a recessed doorway, creating a porte cochere. The front exhibits outer bows with tripartite round-arched windows; these have moulded jambs and console cornices on the first floor, and moulded jambs to the plate-glass sashes in the attic. A late 20th-century timber screen now occupies the space where a former iron verandah once stood, covering the ground-floor French windows. The windows are largely sashes, some with margin bars.

The interior includes a glazed screen with margin bars in the stair hall, a dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters and a curtail with a wreathed rail, marble fireplaces with brackets, bracketed plaster cornices, six-panel doors, and panelled shutters. Hillside House is one of a group of three similar designs.