12 and 14, Ford Park

Nos. 12 and 14 Ford Park are a pair of villas built in the 1850s to 1860s, likely designed by George Wightwick. They are now part of Plymouth College. The villas feature stucco exteriors with channelled rustication at the basement plinth and have dry slate roofs. The central roof is behind a balustraded parapet with a modillion cornice, while the cross wings have pedimented front gables topped with central acroteria. The building is in the Italianate style and has an articulated double-depth plan.

The exterior is two stories over a basement, with flanking three-story wings and porches set back on either side. The symmetrical front has a layout of 1:2:3:2:1 bays. The cross wing pediments have round central and triangular flanking panels above giant panelled pilasters, as well as rusticated and vermiculated pilasters with moulded cornices at the ground floor. The windows are late 19th-century horned sashes with moulded architraves: round arches on the second floor, eared on the first floor, and with moulded hoods on consoles at the ground floor. The central bays feature tripartite windows on the ground floor and a central mid-floor round-arched niche with a moulded hood and sill supported by brackets.

The interior has not been inspected but is expected to be of interest. This building is part of a well-preserved L-shaped layout of particularly lavish mid-19th-century villas with intricate Italianate stucco detailing, as noted by Pevsner.