Courtfield

Courtfield is a house, now divided into flats, built between 1819 and 1820 by John Tinings. A late 19th-century wing was added to the left for Dr. Conolly's asylum. The building is constructed of brick with stucco facades, topped with a slate roof and featuring an iron verandah.

The main structure has two storeys and a basement at the returns and rear, with three first-floor windows. The left wing also has two storeys and a basement, with two first-floor windows. The exterior of the main range is characterized by Tuscan pilasters between the windows, which are 6/6 sashes with margin-lights in plain reveals and blind boxes on the first floor. The ground floor windows are larger. The central entrance features a four-panel door flanked by margin-lights and topped with a continuous overlight. The building has wide eaves, a hipped roof, and end and rear stacks with cornices.

A continuous verandah runs along the front and right return of the ground floor, supported by scrolls on the uprights, with a diamond-lattice frieze and scrolls on the balustrade. The left wing also has 6/6 sash windows. At the rear, the main floor includes two 2/2 long-pane sashes set in elliptically arched recesses with cornices on consoles, individual balustrades featuring a circle motif, and 6/6 sashes on the first floor.

Inside the main range, there is an open-well staircase with a rod on fluted column balusters and a wreathed handrail, along with six-panel doors. The rear room features columns supporting an architrave, an elaborate cornice, and a marble Regency fireplace.

Historically, the property was sold in 1853 by Reverend Gabb to John Bubb.