Eastfield And Mellguards Including Boundary Wall And Gate And Gate Piers

The property comprises a pair of semi-detached houses, Eastfield and Mellguards – Mellguards has since been sub-divided – built in the mid-19th century, with a later 20th-century addition to Eastfield, and Mellguards dating to the late 19th century. Eastfield is constructed of solid, rendered walls, while Mellguards is of yellow brick with red brick and stone dressings. Both have hipped, slated roofs. Eastfield has two rendered chimneys centrally placed at either end of the roof, whereas Mellguards has a single yellow brick stack with red brick bands, consisting of six diagonally set shafts, positioned in the centre of the roof.

Eastfield is a two-storey building with a symmetrical three-window front, featuring a decorative band between the storeys and a deeply projecting bracketed eaves cornice. It has segmental-headed window openings and a four-panelled front door, the upper two panels glazed. French windows flank the door, and six-paned sashes are present in the upper storey. An open-fronted glazed verandah with elaborately braced wooden uprights is situated in front of the ground storey. Mellguards, also two-storeys high, has a pair of canted bay windows with light segmental heads, a pedestal course of patterned red brick and carved stone between storeys, and a deeply projecting bracketed eaves cornice. A doorway with a wooden entrance porch, which is an extension of the verandah at Eastfield, is situated at the left-hand end. The interior of the property has not been inspected.

A front boundary wall of stone rubble with flat stone coping (the coping having been replaced in concrete at the right-hand end) runs along Park Road. Where the wall turns eastwards, there is a square stone pier with a low, pyramidical cap. Two quadrants of the wall turn inwards at the entrance to Eastfield, leading to square wooden gateposts with shaped tops and a wooden gate with diagonally set, intersecting braces. At the entrance to Mellguards, two square stone gate piers with low, pyramidical caps mark the boundary. Historical records, including the 1903 Ordnance Survey map, indicate that the property was originally a single house called Eastfield. The name Mellguards is not shown on this map, nor is the current entrance to that portion of the building. Numbers 3 and 5 were not formerly listed.