Cragston House, 13 Loudoun Street

Cragston House, located at 13 Loudoun Street, is a two-storey, three-bay Arts and Crafts villa designed by Henry Edward Clifford in 1902. The building features an asymmetrical design with a later lower, recessed half-timbered two-storey wing to the west and a single-storey extension added around 2000 to the south, which faces the garden. Notable architectural elements include advanced bays with curved gables, stugged, irregularly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar margins, and overhanging bracketed eaves. The villa has a mix of three- and four-light windows with stone mullions, as well as a canted bay window on the eastern side.

The entrance elevation on the north side showcases an off-centre, full-height, nine-light stained-glass window with stone mullions and transoms. To the right, there is a curved gabled bay featuring a part-glazed timber entrance door set within a round-arched moulded doorpiece. The left side has a crow-stepped gabled bay with a tall, narrow, corniced chimney stack on the right and a balustraded corner parapet on the left.

Inside, the entrance hall is full height and boasts high-quality timberwork, including three-quarter height timber panelling and a timber chimneypiece with a tiled insert. A large stained glass window depicts a sitting lady wearing a bonnet. The hall leads to a galleried landing above and features a timber staircase with barley sugar balusters. The doors throughout are predominantly two-panel timber with bespoke brass doorknobs. The principal room on the ground floor has decorative timber flooring arranged in a herringbone pattern, Tudor-arched openings over the ground floor windows, and barrel vaulting on the first-floor ceilings. The principal bedroom includes full-height timber panelling along with a built-in dressing table and wardrobes.

The villa's windows are mainly metal casements with eight square panes of glazing. It has a tiled roof, coped gables, and tall wallhead chimney stacks. The cast-iron rainwater goods feature decorative hoppers, and the skews are raised.

The boundary walls and gatepiers were added around 2000. The partial boundary walls consist of some squared and coursed sandstone and some rubble with half-round coping on the east and north sides. To the left at the street elevation, there are a pair of circular-plan squared and coursed sandstone gatepiers topped with semi-spherical caps.