52 Hepburn Gardens Including Boundary Walls

Haxton & Walker, 1911. Symmetrical near-intact 2-storey Arts and Crafts double villa with distinctive 4-bay M-gabled street elevation sweeping steeply down to integral open porches to outer bays with unusual squat columns. Whitewashed harl. Overhanging eaves.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N (street) elevation with canted bay windows to ground floor and tripartite windows above partly within gables. Slit openings above. Integral open porches to outer bays with 4 squat columns to upper part, lower part harled. Deeply recessed multi-panelled timber entrance door with small pair of leaded glass panels and 8-light rectangular fanlight above.

Central projecting lower piend-roofed scullery and wash-house wing to rear, No 52 altered with patio doors.

Timber sash and case windows, predominantly 9-pane or 4-pane over plate glass. Graded grey slates. Whitewashed harl ridge stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: (No 52 seen). Good interior scheme in place with fine stained glass window, single segmental consoled and corniced arch and 4-panel timber doors to hall. Simple geometric timber balustrades and handrail to staircases. Some fine joinery work to chimneypiece and integrated cabinet to front ground floor room.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low squared and snecked sandstone wall to Hepburn Gardens with gabled coping.