St Elmo And Treganna

A pair of attached houses built in 1847 as a speculative venture by William Joseph Little, with later alterations. The house at Tregenna has a lined exterior. They have hipped, slightly bellcast roofs with deep eaves and a bracketed cornice. There are end stacks and a central ridge stack.

The houses follow a double depth plan; each has a side porch leading to a longitudinal passage containing two principal rooms at the front and service rooms at the rear, with a staircase along the rear wall of the passage. They have symmetrical, two-bay fronts. The houses are two stories high and feature four windows each. At the first floor, all windows are large two-light casements with four panes to each light. The ground floor has similar casements with three panes each, along with an overlight. A plinth and a canopy verandah remain at Tregenna, now with a corrugated plastic roof and crossed bracing at the eaves.

The left side of St. Elmo has a flat-roofed porch with a band course and blocking course, along with a door and overlight. The first floor has a round-headed sash window with radial glazing bars, lighting the stairwell. A 20th-century window is located at the first floor to the right. The right side of Tregenna has a similar flat-roofed porch with a four-panelled door with cross-glazed overlight, and a matching round-headed stair light.

The rear of St. Elmo has a 12-pane sash window at the first floor on both the left and right sides, and 20th-century windows at ground floor level. A central, single-story service wing with a hipped roof is present, with two single-light windows to the rear, one of which is blocked.

The rear of Tregenna features 12-pane sash windows both at ground and first floor level to the left and right of a shallow, two-story service wing with a band course. The upper level of the gable end is slate hung and there are two ground-floor ventilation lights to the rear, blocked on the right, and two single casements at the first floor to the left side.

The interior of both houses includes straight staircases along the rear passage, with a scroll-carved string, stick balusters and a wreathed grip handrail. Cornices in the modillion style are found in the passage and at the first-floor landing. The principal rooms on both the ground and first floors feature egg and dart cornices. Tregenna has canvas-lined walls to the ground floor rooms; a smaller ground floor room has a black marble chimneypiece with consoles and double panelled doors to the larger room, with a similar chimneypiece. Stone floors are present in the rear service rooms, alongside a pantry with slate shelves, and a store room with original shelves. A principal room at the first floor has a serpentine marble chimneypiece with a depressed four-centred arch and similar canvas-lined walls.

The pair were formerly known as Nos. 3 and 4 Anderton Villas.