11, Long Street

No. 11 Long Street is a former town house of the Lansdowne family, built in the late 18th century. This two-storey building features painted stucco on a projecting plinth and has a string course at the first-floor level adorned with a heavy moulded key pattern. Above the frieze, there is a moulded stone and stucco cornice with a small base moulding, and the building is topped with a parapet that has moulded coping. The slate roof has a central bay that slightly projects.

The façade includes five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with a tall central door that has six panels. The door head is panelled and enriched with small square plaques containing ovals, linked by swags. The outer ovals feature trophies, while the central one displays intertwined anchors. Above the door is a radiating and wreathed arched fanlight made of wrought iron, decorated with cast lead ornament.

The entrance is sheltered by a portico supported by four Ionic columns and four wall pilasters. The necking of the portico is embellished with swag enrichment, and the entablature features laurel leaf decoration on the frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a pediment with free swag enrichment in the tympanum. To the right, there is a small contemporary extension that is slightly set back, designed similarly but with a string course instead of a cornice and one window on the first floor that is two panes wide. All first-floor windows have delicate wrought iron balconies, which are segmental in plan and adorned with case lead leaf, rosette, and honeysuckle ornament.

The house is slightly set back from the street and is approached by two moulded stone steps, with contemporary wrought iron rails featuring small urn standards and good contemporary scrapers. Although the interior has lost many original features, the hall retains a Greek Key frieze and has a panelled coved ceiling with three patterae. At the back, there is a garden wall with arcaded support for the terrace. The street front presents a fine and graceful composition. Nos. 8 to 30 Long Street form a group with this building.