Bryansford House with Attached Wall at Right Railings Gate Piers and Gates

Bryansford House is a villa dating from approximately 1830 to 1832, designed after plans by J.B. Papworth. It is constructed of ashlar facing brick, with a hipped double-pitch slate roof and a stuccoed stack on the left end. The villa is set within a landscaped setting and is accompanied by a boundary wall, railings, gate piers, and gates.

The building is two storeys high with a basement and attic windows to the rear. Architectural details include ground-floor horizontal rustication drawn into the voussoirs over the windows, Tuscan pilasters extending through the ground and first floors, and tooled architraves to the first-floor windows. The ground floor has tripartite windows, with 1/1 replacement sashes throughout. A flight of eight roll-edged steps leads to a central entrance with a six-fielded-panel door and a margin-glazed overlight, set within a Doric porch with columns in antis and engaged columns to the ends, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice with a blocking course. The building has wide eaves, and the rear retains 8/8 and 6/6 sash windows. Attic dormers are present. The interior remains uninspected.

Subsidiary features include two bootscrapers to the steps. Walls, approximately 2 metres high with copings, extend to the right, connecting to boundary walls at the rear. These abut arrowhead railings to the front right boundary, with embellished finials to the stanchions, extending for approximately 8 metres to a renewed pier with sunk panels. Double gates are placed here, ramping down to the centre with arrowhead bars and a scrolled lower frieze. An iron hinge post with scrolls and peaked caps is present. A similar arrangement of railings extends for 4 metres to another iron hinge post, and double gates lead to an ashlar pier.

Park Place, where the villa is situated, was developed by 1832. According to Verey, the street is characterised by detached or semi-detached villas with neo-Greek detailing, resembling the work of J.B. Papworth. Numbers 16 and 18 Park Place are noted as particularly similar in design.