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

Late 19th century incorporating circa 1847 fabric. Single storey, attic and basement, 3-bay, multi-gabled house with deep bracketed eaves, substantial Italiantate stone porch and range of single storey workshops to rear forming I-plan. Squared, coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course. Fairly regular fenestration with raised margins and bracketed cills.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal elevation of house to NE. Central porch with pilaster quoins and double-arched window to front with pilaster margins; deep bracketed eaves forming broken pediment above with spike finial; 2-leaf timber-panelled door to left return.

Gabled dormer breaking eaves to left bay; gable to right bay. Single central windows at ground to side gables; basement area with steps and railings to NW gable. T-plan range of stores and workshops adjoining to rear with irregular arrangement of windows and timber-boarded doors to both elevations

Non-traditional glazing to house; small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to workshop range. Corniced stacks with clay cans. Graded grey slate roof. Velux window above porch to house; traditional 2-pane skylights to workshops; ridge vent to workshops.

INTERIOR OF HOUSE: encaustic tiled floor to porch. Timber stair with handrail supported on cast-iron wall brackets. Some cornicing.

WATER TESTING HOUSE: circa 1900. Single storey, 1-room gabled outbuilding with applied ornamental timber truss to front gable, bracketed eaves and plain bargeboards. Neatly squared, stugged sandstone with polished ashlar window cills. Base course. Central timber-panelled door with herringbone panels; GCWW in raised lettering above. Sash and case windows to side elevations (2-pane glazed lower sashes; 12-pane glazing to upper) with projecting cills. Slate roof.