Hadley House And Attached Balustrade

Hadley House is a villa built around 1839-1842, with later additions and alterations including a range added at the rear between 1950 and 1970. The building is constructed of brick with painted stucco facades and features a slate roof, along with an iron balustrade.

The exterior has two storeys and three first-floor windows. It is characterized by full-height Doric pilasters located between the windows and at the ends, along with a frieze, architrave, and cornice. A first-floor band features a recessed panel between the pilasters in the outer bays. The central pedimented portico is supported by two pairs of Ionic columns and two engaged Doric pilasters, with a frieze and cornice above. A flight of renewed roll-edged steps leads up to a four-panel door flanked by side-lights and topped with a continuous overlight that has glazing bars. The ground floor includes tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes between narrow 1/1 sashes; all windows have plain reveals and sills, with the first-floor windows featuring tooled architraves. The building has central and rear stacks, and the returns mainly have 2/2 sashes, some of which are blind. The ground-floor surrounds are tooled.

The balustrade on the sides of the porch is decorated with an anthemion motif. Historically, the Bayshill Estate was developed by a joint stock company that purchased land from the Skillicorne family in 1837. By 1843, Henry Davies noted that there were several detached villas, some occupied by affluent families, while others remained unfinished. The company went bankrupt around 1845, after which architect Samuel Onley acquired much of the Bayshill property. Pevsner remarked that Hadley House is part of a superb group of villas that make Bayshill Road one of the great architectural roads in England.