Dunronald, 55 Crescent Road

Dunronald is an Art and Crafts house dating from 1906. It is a single-storey and attic structure with a two-storey element, situated on Crescent Road. The exterior is primarily red engineering brick with red sandstone ashlar lintels and a base course. A distinctive feature is its flush, timber multi-pane windows and mock timber framing to the gableheads and first floor.

The east elevation, which is the main facade, is three bays wide with single-storey sections at the centre and right. A recessed porch features a segmental-arched timber verandah screen with a boarded timber soffit. The entrance door is panelled with multi-pane glazing, including fleuron panels, and is accessed through an en suite vestibule door. To the left of the porch is a generous transomed and mullioned multi-light window that turns the corner; a three-light gabled dormer sits above it, incorporating timber-framed gablehead detailing. The bay to the right is two storeys high, with a canted bay window featuring a window on each face at ground level and a central window on the upper floor, topped with a half-piend roof and a weathervane finial.

The north elevation is two storeys high, with a central ground-floor window and a two-light window to the right. An oeil-de-boeuf window is positioned on the first floor to the left, alongside a two-light window to the centre and a rectangular oriel window supported by carved timber brackets to the right.

The south elevation is single-storey, with a central window, a projecting window to the left, and a return of the front window to the right. A three-light gabled dormer is also present. A later addition exists to the rear of the property.

Most windows are casement types, except those in the canted bay and on the north elevation, which are timber sash and case windows. These sash windows have multi-pane upper sashes and plate glass lowers with an eight-pane strip below the sill. The roof is covered in purple slates with clay ridge tiles and ball finials. Red brick stacks taper and feature a neck ledge.

The interior is notable for its fine period decoration and high-quality joinery. The vestibule features a door mirroring the main entrance, incorporating a coombed ceiling. The inner hall has a segmental-double-arched arcade with a corniced timber pier and reeded soffits. The doors are similarly detailed to the main entrance except for the fleuron panels. A moulded timber newel staircase is present, along with a boarded dado. Stained glass features in the large, mullioned and transomed stair window. Built-in cupboards are found in the former kitchen, which has been extended. The dining/drawing room includes wainscot panelling, a segmental-arched recess, and a bracketed picture rail, and features a stylised chimney piece with panelled posts and a larger jettied upper section. The study displays reeded wainscot panelling, a tiled chimney piece with an overmantel mirror and glazed centrepiece, and a segmental lintel above the window.

The property is approached via decorative wrought-iron railings set on an ashlar sandstone dwarf wall with an en suite pedestrian gate. Red sandstone ashlar gate piers have segmental detail and pyramidal caps, marking the driveway.