Colchester Villas

Colchester Villas is a terrace of four houses built in the late 19th century. The houses are constructed of dressed stone, with granite dressings, and have dry Delabole slate roofs, some featuring patterned slates on the steep roofs of the towers. The chimneys are rendered and have original chimney pots, with cast-iron ogee gutters except on the left-hand house. The design incorporates a symmetrical double-depth plan together with a service wing, and is in a French Renaissance/Baronial style.

The east front is symmetrical, comprising a 1:1:1:1:2:2:1:1:1:1 bay arrangement. The houses have panelled doors, mullioned windows with original sashes, moulded hoods and cornices. The end houses are L-shaped, with three-storey towers over their porches. The left-hand house mirrors the right-hand house and features a central three-storey tower porch with a steep roof over a corbelled cornice. This porch has a round-headed doorway, while a projecting bay to the left has a canted ground-floor bay window with an ironwork balcony and a roof dormer set within a ramped gable surmounted by a triangular pediment. The central houses have canted bay windows and flanking doors set within a five-bay loggia, with basket and round arches to the arcade surmounted by a decorative iron balustrade. Two central first-floor bays project forward and are topped by canted dormers with hipped roofs.

Interior spaces, where inspected, retain original plasterwork and joinery details.