Westlands

Westlands is a large, two-story and attic villa built in 1904 and designed in the Arts and Crafts style. The house is arranged in an L-shape and constructed from bull-faced snecked rubble, with snecked rubble also used for the service wing, and ashlar dressings. The roof is slate-covered. Windows are single, bi-, and tripartite, featuring stone mullions, sash and case frames with plate glass at the bottom and six panes at the top. Prominent full-height, four-light canted windows are found on the west elevation, incorporating stone transoms and nine-pane top-glazing at ground floor level, with facetted roofs over. Deep, modillioned eaves and prominent stacks on the west elevation, rising midway between the eaves and ridge with corbel detail, a cornice, and elongated terracotta cans, are notable features. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with a large decorative hopper on the east elevation.

The west elevation is four bays and near-symmetrical. A panelled door, featuring a multi-pane top light and an Arts and Crafts handle, is centrally located on the right side, approached by steps with coped cheeks, a moulded doorcase, and a lintel inscribed “JBG 1904.” A large semi-ogival canopy is supported by sculpted consoles. A tripartite window is located on the left, with two bipartites at the first floor, a central tripartite window (with astragals removed), and canted windows terminating in coped gables with swept skew blocks at the outer bays.

The south gable has a tripartite transom and mullion window on the left, a single window on the right, and a bipartite window on the first floor. The north gable has two single windows at ground and first floor level on the left.

The east elevation features a single window at ground floor level on the left, a modern porch in the re-entrant angle, a stair window at centre, and a dormer on the right. The single-story and attic service wing projects to the right, with a door and bipartite window at the gable, a bipartite window at the attic level, and a door and dormer on the left return. The right return of the service wing has three windows and a dormer.

The interior retains many original features, including fireplaces (notably an inglenook fireplace in the drawing room), decorative cornices, a partially glazed bipartite inner door, stained glass in the stairwell and other windows, turned balusters, a fitted pantry, and a laundry room with drying hangars.

Round-coped rubble boundary walls enclose the north, south, and east quadrants, with wrought-iron gates at the east and north boundaries.