Homelea, Faith Avenue, Quarriers Village

Robert Bryden, 1886. Single-storey and attic roughly rectangular-plan piend-roofed villa with half-timbered detailing and dormers breaking eaves to attic. 2-storey canted bays to NE and SW elevations; half-timbered gable to NW (entrance) elevation with swept-roof porch to one side; canted bay window to SE (rear) elevation. Cream sandstone ashlar with some half-timbering and bull-faced snecked sandstone base course. Base course, ground floor cill course to principal elevations; string course to canted bays and gable; bargeboarded eaves. Roll-moulded window margins, some raised; some transomed and mullioned windows.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: half-glazed timber-panelled door to swept-roof glazed porch with decorative woodwork. 2-leaf timber panelled front door in stop-chamfered, roll-moulded architrave; decorative carved tablet above bearing date AD 1886. Advanced gable to centre with tripartite window at ground; attic floor jettied out on carved stone corbels and timber brackets; half-timbering with decorative woodwork; bipartite window to attic with timber mullion. Swept-roof windowless half-timbered bay to right with decorative turned baluster detailing.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: canted bay to left with tripartite window at ground; flanking transomed windows; bipartite gabled dormer to attic. Irregularly-fenestrated recessed 3-bay wing to right with

half-timbered 2-window dormer to attic.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-light canted bay window at ground to left; bipartite, half-timbered gabled dormer above. Slightly recessed bay to right with bipartite window at ground and bipartite, half-timbered gabled dormer above.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: canted bay to right identical to one on SW elevation, but with piend-roofed dormer. 3-bay wing slightly recessed to left: bipartite window to right with decorative strap-work pediment above; timber boarded side door to centre with fanlight over lintel; piend-roofed dormers above; possibly later door at 1st floor with concrete steps to outer left.

Timber sash and case windows with predominantly plate glass glazing; some 4-pane glazing to sides. Decorative ridge stacks with octagonal yellow clay cans. Graded grey slates; decorative red terracotta ridge tiles. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: tiled porch. Half-glazed timber-panelled inner door. Inner and outer entrance hall divided by beam supported on decorative console brackets. Timber stair with boxed-in balusters, timber hand rail and tapered newel post with ball finial. Interior door-cases with corner rondels; interior timber panelled doors (some boxed in to make Fire Doors). Half-glazed timber panelled doors with frosted glass to side-door lobby and former office. Fairly plain cornicing throughout.