Avon Villa The Parsonage

Avon Villa and The Parsonage are a pair of attached houses located on the Black Hall estate, built around 1840 to 1845, and are not shown on the 1840 estate map. The buildings are constructed of stone rubble, plastered and blocked out, with an asbestos slate hipped roof featuring deep eaves and rendered axial stacks.

The layout consists of two estate houses situated back-to-back, with entrances on the east and west sides. The main facade faces south towards the road, while the kitchens are located in outshuts on the north side. The Parsonage, on the left (west), has two principal rooms with an entrance passage between them. Avon Villa, on the right (east), has three principal rooms, two of which are back-to-back with those of the Parsonage, and an L-shaped plan with the third room and entrance passage at the front.

The south front is symmetrical with a three-window range featuring 19th-century 16-pane sash windows. There is a later 19th-century or early 20th-century rectangular bay window at the center of the ground floor, topped with a hipped slate roof and a tripartite sash window with panes arranged in a 4:16:4 configuration. The left return of the Parsonage has asymmetrical fenestration, with 19th-century 16-pane sash windows to the left and a central glazed flush panel door with a rectangular 4-pane overlight above. There is a two-storey lean-to on the left with 19th-century casements and an early 20th-century conservatory across the right side of the ground floor.

The right return of Avon Villa features an early 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the first floor and a doorway below with a 19th-century glazed flush panel door and a 4-pane rectangular overlight. An open porch with slender granite columns and pilasters supports a wooden entablature canopy with a moulded cornice, set back to the right of the doorway. The right return also has 19th-century 16-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, along with 19th-century casements in the two-storey lean-to on the right. Inside, the layout remains intact, and much of the 19th-century joinery is preserved.