Letrault, Shore Road, Shandon

This is a two-storey, five-bay villa dating to 1855, with extensions made in 1864. It is situated on Shore Road, Shandon, and incorporates a single-storey block and a conservatory on its north side. The house has a rambling plan and displays Jacobethan detailing.

The villa is constructed of cream-painted harl with sandstone ashlar dressings and margins. Visible features include a base course, quoin strips, a string course, hoodmoulds over windows, stone mullions, chamfered reveals, an eaves cornice, and fleur-de-lis finials. The southwest elevation incorporates a recessed lower block to the left and a two-stage, square entrance tower to the left of centre featuring a four-panelled door with a plate glass fanlight. Bipartite windows are symmetrically arranged on each face of the tower at the first floor, with stepped hoodmoulds and strapwork above. A shaped parapet sits atop moulded corbels. A slightly advanced gabled bay with a full-height canted bay window is positioned to the right, and a further symmetrical three-bay block is located to the outer right, featuring a polished sandstone tripartite window. Dormerheads are also present, with a ball finial above the centre and blind lancet windows at the gablehead.

The original sash windows are 4-pane and have plate glass, set within sandstone surrounds. The roof is covered in grey slate, with sawtooth skews, ashlar coping to the skewputts, console skewputts, coped rectangular apex and ridge stacks, and octagonal cans. The interior was not inspected in 1993.

To the northeast of the house are long, rectangular, asymmetrical outbuildings. These are also built of cream-painted harl with sandstone dressings and margins, including quoin strips and an eaves band. A four-panelled door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight is positioned off-centre to the right, with a coach opening to the outer right. Windows, with replacement glass designed to resemble multi-pane units, are disposed asymmetrically. The outbuildings have a pantiled roof with squat coped ridge stacks and octagonal terracotta cans.

A curved low ashlar plinth wall with simple cast-iron railings runs along part of the property’s boundary, terminating in piers with pyramidal caps, now surmounted by cast-iron lamps.