Mercian Court

Mercian Court is a villa, built around 1832 and later converted into flats. The exterior is stucco over brick with a concealed roof. It is three storeys high with a basement, and has a façade of one window on the left, set back, and three windows on the right. The stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor, paired end pilasters and two central pilasters, with cornices incorporated into the first-floor band and supported by corbel brackets on the bays. There are Tuscan pilasters on the ends and centrally through the first and second floors, a frieze, wide eaves, and balustrades above the bays. Tooled architraves frame the ground-floor and first-floor windows of the left bay, and a cornice is above the second floor. A plinth is present. The central bay’s main range features blind openings on the first and second floors, those on the first floor within tooled architraves. The ground floor of the main range has three six-over-six sash windows in tooled architraves, with panels above. The first floor has outer tripartite windows; the central section comprises six-pane French windows with margin lights between narrow lights, and overlights with margin lights. The second floor features outer triple windows with six-over-three sashes between two-over-one sashes, where originally present. The bay to the left has a cambered-arched opening on the ground floor, with otherwise one-over-one sashes. The basement has three-over-six sashes. An entrance is located on the far left, with steps leading to a six-panel door. The interior has not been inspected. Park Place was developed by 1832.