Long Orchard

Long Orchard is a villa dating from approximately 1830 to 1840, built in a Gothic style and originally faced with stucco. It is part of a group of early to mid-19th century villas situated in a residential cul-de-sac in the upper part of the town, benefitting from especially fine settings.

The west entrance front has three gabled bays, increasing in width to the south, and stepped out from one another. Ornamental bargeboards with finials adorn the gables. There are three windows to each floor; the windows in the narrow northern bay have been altered. The attic has 2-light marginal glazed Gothic casements. Superimposed bay windows extend across the ground and first floors in the wide southern bay, with seven lights each, transomed and featuring pointed panes and marginal glazing. The upper lights have pointed panes, and the central first-floor window is a bowed 2-light casement with a bowed hood. An enclosed central porch has a barrel-vaulted leaded roof, side lights with intersecting glazing bars, a recessed door of two fielded panels, a semi-circular fanlight with a central round gene and glazing bars curving up each side within an architrave case. The south garden front is more symmetrical, with the first floor flanked by pilaster strips containing pointed arched panels. A central, projecting gabled bay rises to an attic, incorporating ornamental bargeboards and similar fascia to the wide eaves. A single Gothic casement is present in the attic. The first floor has three windows; the outer windows are sashes with marginal Gothic glazing, each supported by a bracketed anthemion and a Vitruvian scroll balcony. The central window is a wider 2-light French casement with marginal glazing, and a similar, yet wider, balcony is positioned beneath it. A tented roof verandah is present on the ground floor, supported by later wooden structures; the centre projects and is enclosed with marginal glazed lights and a door, likely having been a later alteration.