Numbers 20 And 21 Including Attached Garden Walls And Gate Piers At The Front

Numbers 20 and 21 are an unequal pair of villas built in the mid to late 19th century, forming part of a planned group of villas in Plymouth. They are constructed of stucco with stucco detailing and feature steep asbestos slate roofs behind parapets, which have a moulded entablature. The roofs also include two coped front gables located on the cross wings, one to the right of centre and one on the right side. The villas are designed in a simple Tudor Gothic style and have an overall L-shaped irregular double-depth plan.

The exterior of the buildings consists of three storeys for No.20 (on the left) and two storeys over a basement for No.21. The front is articulated into five bays, with one window on the first floor of each bay and on the second floor of No.20, which has two bays. No.20 features a slightly projecting bay on the left with a pilastered canted bay window and a moulded entablature on the ground floor. There is a narrow entrance bay with a 4-centred arched doorway of two orders and a panelled door, along with a projecting cross wing on the right that is flush with the front of No.21, which has windows on each floor of its left-hand return. The left-hand bays of No.20 have late 19th or 20th-century horned sashes without glazing bars, while the right-hand bay of No.20 and the right-hand bay of No.21 possibly retain original 2-light transomed mullioned windows with 4-centred arched top lights. The narrow entrance bay of No.21 features a parapet above a single-light first-floor window and a 4-centred arched doorway with a panelled and partly-glazed door set back. All openings are adorned with square hoodmoulds, and there is a string course above the first-floor windows.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The villas are complemented by subsidiary features, including rubble side garden walls that connect to a low front wall with square gate-piers topped with squat pyramidal caps. This building forms part of a notable group of mid-19th-century villas.