1, Edward Street

No. 1 Edward Street is a villa built in the early 19th century, likely designed by Philip Sambell for developer Josephus Ferris. The building features stuccoed masonry and an asbestos slate hipped roof with projecting eaves. It has a rectangular plan, consisting of three rooms deep and two rooms wide, with a central entrance hall. The villa is two storeys high and presents a symmetrical three-window front to Edward Street, which includes a central wide elliptically-arched doorway with a four-panel door, fanlight, and scribed pilasters. This doorway is framed by rusticated architraves and is set within a flat-roofed open porch supported by fluted Doric columns. The building also has panelled quoin pilasters and moulded window architraves, featuring late 19th-century four-pane horned sashes and widely spaced eaves brackets. The elevation facing Frances Street has an overall four-window front, with a symmetrical three-window section on the left and a one-window return from the Edward Street front on the right. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.