Wistaria and Attached Front Walls

Wistaria is a small urban villa dating from around 1820, believed to have been converted from three weavers' cottages. It features roughcast cob construction and a slate roof with a serrated timber canopy at the eaves and verges, along with rear lateral and axial stacks that have brick shafts. The building has an L-shaped plan with a single depth main block that is two rooms wide, and a central entrance passage. There is a rear wing with two rooms that may have earlier origins.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-bay front. The regular bays are treated as two-storey recesses with plain pilasters and segmental arched heads. The front door is located in the bay to the left of center and features a doorcase with pilasters on moulded bases, an entablature with a triglyph frieze, and dentil moulding below a flat porch hood with a reeded cornice. A small statue of a unicorn sits atop the porch hood. The other bays have early 19th-century 16-pane windows on the first floor and French windows with margin panes.

The left side of the building has a mix of casement and sash windows, along with a tiled porch canopy over the doorway. The right side features early 19th-century sash windows and a serrated timber eaves canopy that matches the front elevation. In front, there is a coped brick garden wall with chamfered granite gate piers topped with pyramidal caps. This wall is similar to one found at the neighboring houses, Astolat and Woodside. Inside, the villa retains original joinery.