Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Fauconberg Villas and Attached Railings to Numbers 1 and 2

Numbers 1, 2, and 3 Fauconberg Villas are three detached villas, now used as school offices with link blocks, and include attached railings to numbers 1 and 2. They were likely built around 1847 by Samuel Onley, with additions made in the 1980s. The construction is stucco over brick, with hipped slate roofs and renewed grey brick end stacks. Iron railings are present.

The villas are two storeys with attics and a basement, each with three windows on the first floor. The architraves are enriched with paterae; those on the ground floor have round-arched heads and carved acanthus keystones, while those on the first floor have sills on enriched cornices. Enriched stringcourses are positioned at the first floor and below the eaves, with egg-and-dart moulding on the first-floor stringcourses of the centre and left-hand houses. The basement windows are 3/3 sashes. The attic dormers, two per house, have 1/1 sashes.

Entrances are set back on the left sides, leading to single-storey porches with flights of steps, featuring 4-panel doors and fanlights. The porch to the left has an egg-and-dart cornice, frieze, and copings, the central porch has a frieze and copings, and the porch originally on the right-hand house has been removed. Wide, overhanging eaves are a notable feature. The interior has not been inspected.

Spearhead railings are located on the sides of the steps leading to the left and central houses. The Bayshill Estate was developed in 1837, and by 1843, Henry Davies’s guide described the area as containing detached villas occupied by affluent families. These villas are considered part of a superb group making Bayshill Road an important architectural road. The stucco detailing is particularly distinctive.