Weston House

Weston House is a villa, built between 1841 and 1842 for James Creed. It is now used as a surgery. The exterior is stucco over brick, with a concealed roof. The villa is two storeys high with a basement and attics. It has three windows on the first floor. Stucco detailing includes a plinth, quoins to the angles, tooled architraves to the first-floor windows, Tuscan pilasters to the surrounds and between the lights of the ground-floor windows, a tooled sill band to the first floor, and a crowning tooled frieze and cornice with a blocking course, raised centrally. The first floor has 6/6 sash windows; the ground floor has tripartite windows with 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes; and the basement has 8/8 sash windows, all in plain reveals. Ground-floor windows have sills. Attic dormers have 20th-century casement windows. A flight of eight roll-edged steps leads to the central entrance, which has an Ionic porch with two pairs of fluted columns, an architrave, frieze, and pediment. The interior, as shown in photographs dated 1993, features a dogleg staircase with alternate stick and embellished rod balustrades and a wreathed handrail, with alternate acanthus modillions and flowers to the hall cornice. The remainder of the interior was not inspected. The villa was constructed as part of a development for Joseph Pitt between 1825 and 1842, with the overall layout designed by the architect John Forbes. Weston House contributes to a distinguished group of villas along Pittville Lawn.