Clareham Court And Hyperion

Clareham Court and Hyperion are a pair of villas built in the mid to late 19th century. They are constructed of stucco with stucco detailing and feature low-pitched slate roofs adorned with modillion cornices. The tall stuccoed stacks also have modillion cornices and pediments. The villas have a double-depth plan with entrance halls located behind the front rooms on both the left and right sides.

The exterior consists of two storeys and presents a symmetrical façade with a three-to-four-to-three window arrangement facing the road. The original hornless sash windows, including those in the canted bays, have margin panes. The left and right sides feature triple windows with moulded architraves, consoles, and central pediments above canted pilastered bays that are topped with moulded entablatures. The cornices are linked to a moulded string and are surmounted by balconies with turned balustrades. The remaining windows have moulded architraves, with the first-floor windows displaying round flanking triangular pediments on consoles, while the ground-floor windows have moulded hoods on consoles.

The other elevations are also richly detailed, with entrance porches that include rusticated doorways, moulded entablatures, and turned or panelled balustrades leading to balconies above. There are paired round-arched lights above the porches and similar windows over turned balustrades near the front and above rusticated round-arched niches. The windows in the projecting wings at the rear of the porches mirror those in the central bays at the front. Hyperion, on the left, features a glazed lean-to conservatory in front of the porch.

The interior has not been inspected but is expected to reflect the high quality of the exterior. This pair of villas remains largely unaltered and is part of a significant group in Mannamead that was developed after 1851.