Main House Including Workshops And Former Water Testing Tower, Aurs Road

The building is a late 19th century house that incorporates fabric from around 1847. It is a single storey, attic, and basement structure with three bays and multiple gables. The house features deep bracketed eaves and a substantial Italianate stone porch, along with a range of single storey workshops at the rear, forming an I-plan layout. The exterior is made of squared, coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and a base course. The fenestration is fairly regular, with raised margins and bracketed cills.

The principal elevation of the house faces northeast. It has a central porch with pilaster quoins and a double-arched window at the front, flanked by pilaster margins. Above the porch, deep bracketed eaves create a broken pediment topped with a spike finial. To the left of the porch is a two-leaf timber-panelled door. There is a gabled dormer that breaks the eaves on the left bay and a gable on the right bay. The ground level features single central windows at the side gables, and there is a basement area with steps and railings on the northwest gable. The adjoining T-plan range of stores and workshops at the rear has an irregular arrangement of windows and timber-boarded doors on both elevations.

The house has non-traditional glazing, while the workshop range features small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The building has corniced stacks with clay cans and a graded grey slate roof. A Velux window is located above the porch of the house, and traditional two-pane skylights are present in the workshops, along with a ridge vent.

Inside the house, there is an encaustic tiled floor in the porch, a timber stair with a handrail supported by cast-iron wall brackets, and some cornicing.

The water testing house, dating from around 1900, is a single storey, one-room gabled outbuilding. It has an applied ornamental timber truss on the front gable, bracketed eaves, and plain bargeboards. The building is constructed of neatly squared, stugged sandstone with polished ashlar window cills and a base course. It features a central timber-panelled door with herringbone panels and "GCWW" in raised lettering above. The side elevations have sash and case windows, with two-pane glazed lower sashes and twelve-pane glazing in the upper sections, all with projecting cills. The roof is slate.