1 and 1a, Ashford Road

This is a villa, now divided into two dwellings, built between 1840 and 1850, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of brick with stucco facades, and has a fish-scale slate roof with unpainted stucco stacks. It displays an eclectic “Cottage Ornée” style, mixing Italianate, Swiss, and Tudor Revival details.

The villa is two storeys and five bays in width, with a projecting single-storey entrance porch on the left. The porch has a six-panel part-glazed door with a fanlight, a tooled arched hood with a keystone, and a pierced balcony above. A first-floor window is set back, featuring a fluted end pilaster, a blind opening, and a hoodmould. A projecting gabled bay has full-height fluted Doric pilasters to the ends and decorative bargeboards. This bay contains a first-floor 1/1 sash window with a hoodmould, and a ground-floor 2/2 sash window with a hoodmould. The third bay has a fluted pilaster to the right, a first-floor 1/1 sash, a ground-floor 2/2 sash, a canted bay window, and a gable over a three-light mullioned first-floor window with 1/1 sashes and a hoodmould; decorative bargeboards are also present. The right-hand end features an octagonal turret. The projecting bay has two 1/1 first-floor and two 2/2 ground-floor sashes, all with hoodmoulds; the canted bay and the window above have mullioned windows. To the first floor, these contain 1/1 sashes and a hoodmould with a carved panel above. The turret has 1/1 sashes and upper panels of carved ornament. A further entrance is located on the right return, accessed via a four-panel door. The right return also has fluted Doric pilasters at the ends. The interior remains uninspected.