Luxtowe House

Luxtowe House is a large suburban house, now used as offices, built in 1831 by architect George Wightwick for William Glencross. The building features coursed rubble with granite dressings, some slate hanging, and dry slate roofs, which are either coped gables or hipped. It has an embattled parapet over the entrance and tall chimney shafts that are hexagonal and diamond-shaped, arranged in singles, pairs, or threes.

The house consists of two attached irregular-plan blocks with a courtyard between them, designed in the Tudor Gothic style and standing two storeys high. The principal entrance range includes a plinth, hoodmoulds, and gable finials. The northeast entrance front has a layout of 1:3:1 bays, featuring canted bays to the right of the centre. The central doorway is 4-centred arched, with a corbelled 4-light oriel above and tall finials at the angles. The canted bays have single 4-centred arched lights, while the gable end on the left showcases a 2-light transomed mullioned window and a 3-light mullion above, both with 4-centred arched lights and a dated coat-of-arms on the gable. The right-hand bay is blind, except for a small ground-floor window.

The southeast garden front has a layout of 1:1:1:2 bays, with a projecting cross wing on the left that features slate hanging on the first floor. The gables above the windows rise from the embattled parapet, and the windows are 2-light casements within moulded stone surrounds. A slate-roofed wooden verandah is present on the ground floor. The northwest courtyard elevation retains several windows, including a large stair window with cast-iron lozenge glazing.

Inside, the building preserves many original Tudor Gothic style doors and mouldings, a traceried fanlight over the tripartite lobby door, an open-well staircase, and some moulded and carved plasterwork.