Belle Vue Place Stirling House (That Part Which Is To High Street)

House, now offices, built around 1810 to 1820, and altered later, including office additions to the rear constructed between 1983 and 1988. The front part of the building, facing the High Street, is included in the listing, but not the rear additions. It is constructed of stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof and tall stucco side chimneys. The exterior features a prominent central bow window, three windows wide on each of the three storeys. The windows are 6/6 sashes, with the first-floor windows being taller than those above and below, set in plain reveals with sills. Blind boxes remain to the first-floor windows. Continuous plat bands run across the first and second floors. The main entrance is now on the right return, accessed via a later office building. The interior retains numerous original features. The first-floor drawing room has fireplace surrounds dating to around the 1870s, including marble chimneypieces with corbel brackets, iron grates, and tiled surrounds. The bay window has fluted architraves ornamented with floral details at the corners, an acanthus cornice, and a wheat-pattern ceiling frieze. Similar architraves frame the doors throughout, incorporating fluting and floral angles. Original double doors connect the older and newer sections of the building. The second floor contains a simple Regency-style fireplace with a circular motif in the corners, 6-panel doors with matching architraves, and double doors leading to the newer range. A first-floor verandah has a scroll motif on the uprights, an embellished rod-and-star motif, with a lattice balustrade and frieze. The building was addressed as Belle Vue Place on Merrett’s 1834 map.