9, Tor Church Road

This is a villa, later divided into flats, dating from the 1850s, with an addition from the 19th century. It is situated above Tor Church Road. Originally designed with two rooms wide and two rooms deep, the plan included rear service rooms and space for stabling. The building was later altered for subdivision into flats, preserving the original staircase. A secondary entrance block was added to the right end.

The original block is symmetrical with three bays and is rendered with a gabled slate roof. The roof features stacks with rendered shafts. Pilasters with sunk panels and moulded brackets rise above the moulded roof verges, and a platband sits at the first floor level. Round-headed arches are incorporated into the pilasters on the first and second floors within the centre bay. A 20th-century timber verandah spans the front, supported by posts and featuring a first-floor balcony with simple timber balustrades. The ground floor features three six-over-nine-pane sash windows. The outer first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with cornices on consoles. A French window is central, with similar treatment. The second floor has blind semicircular recesses—likely originally glazed—with moulded architraves, a round-headed centre window with margin panes, and two newly inserted small windows. The two-storey block on the right has a plain parapet, with a two-leaf half-glazed front door and a moulded hoodmould on the ground floor, and two two-pane sashes on the first floor.

The entrance block’s floor is tiled, dating from the 1880s. A stick baluster staircase remains, and while the doors have been replaced, some original fireplaces survive.