Queens House

Queens House is a villa dating from the 1850s to the 1860s, now used as a school boarding house. It is constructed of stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof, a stucco stack at the right end, and an iron balcony. The building is two storeys high with a basement, and the entrance bay is set back slightly to the left. The exterior has horizontal rustication throughout the ground floor, quoins to the main range, a cornice with modillions above the entrance, a continuous moulded first-floor sill band, a frieze above the first floor, modillion eaves, a cornice, and a blocking course to the porch. The windows have tooled architraves to both ground and first floors, with ears and keystones to the ground floor windows, and cornices on acanthus brackets to the first-floor windows. The ground floor windows are taller and have blind boxes, while the basement windows are 6/6 sashes. The entrance has a round arch with a vermiculated keystone on imposts; the first-floor window above has a round-arched architrave with a keystone. The interior retains original plasterwork and joinery, including an embellished cornice to the hall. A balcony across the ground floor has an ornate balustrade. The design is similar to numbers 1 and 2 College Lawn.