27 and 29, Whitladies Road

27 and 29 Whitladies Road are a pair of attached houses, now used as offices, built in 1862 by William Coates. They are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature party wall stacks, topped with a concrete tile hipped roof. The houses are designed in the Italianate style and consist of three storeys with a three-window range. The symmetrical front displays clasping giant pilasters, a raised party wall, a plat band, and a frieze that creates recessed panels for the windows. The ground floor is banded, and the outer entrance blocks are set back, each with a single-storey porch that has impost bands leading to semicircular-arched doorways, topped with panels and 6-panel doors. The ground and first floors have arcades of three semicircular-arched windows with impost bands and incised hoods, while the second floor features paired windows above a band of incised circles, flanked by vertical incised panels with Greek key decoration. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes. Inside, there is a central lateral dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters, modillion cornices, and 6-panel doors. Nos 21-33 are connected into a single office space. This pair of houses is a plain yet attractive addition to the group of Neoclassical and Italianate villas along Whiteladies Road.