128 AND 130, TAUNTON ROAD

Two attached mid-19th century houses, located on Taunton Road, with No.130 situated to the left and currently used as offices. The houses are constructed of stucco with a crested slate roof, cream brick stacks to the rear gable ends and a central valley, and have pitched stone coping, finials, pendants, and moulded kneelers to the gables. Each house has an L-shaped plan.

The houses are two storeys high, with a three-window range to the front facades. No.128 faces north and No.130 faces south. The windows have Tudor arches, margin panes to each light, square overlights with margin panes, and an inverted Tudor arch to the base of the central pane. No.130 has 20th-century windows except for those on the ground floor to the right. The centrally gabled ranges project slightly forward, each featuring a corbelled-out two-light casement oriel window above a label mould, overlooking a Tudor-arched door with narrow vertical panels. The northern ranges have a label mould over a two-light casement window on both floors. The southern L-shape steps back, with slate verandahs projecting and extending across the east fronts, facing Taunton Road. The east facades each have a gable with a pointed-arched slit window of three panes to the apex, a label mould to a two-light casement window on the first floor, and a three-light canted bay beneath the verandah. The stacks, above a string course, have separate shafts and moulded cornices.

The interior of No.130 includes a polychromatic tile floor to the hall, a closed-string staircase with stick balusters and a swept rail, and panelled shutters to the canted bay of the ground-floor left room. This room features a late 19th-century tile inset that imitates brick with stone quoins and a Georgian-style wooden fireplace with a cornice, cushion moulding, and keystone. The room to the left has French windows and a Georgian-style fireplace with an eared architrave, as well as picture rails.