The Shian Including Gate, Woodlands Road, Rosemount

Possibly James Lowe, 1901; flat copper-roofed dining room extension 1902, later piend-roofed extension to E. Early example of 2-storey, asymmetrical gabled Arts and Crafts (with Viennese Secession detailing) villa. Well-detailed interior, unusual Rosemary tile mansard roof with swept bargeboarding, battered angle buttresses, semicircular-plan tripartite windows on battered base, canted oriel and circular windows. Whitewashed harl with contrasting raked cills. Base course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: broad gabled entrance elevation to S with integral part-glazed buttressed porch at left and prominent 1902 flat-roofed single storey bay at right with oriel and circular windows. W (garden) elevation with bowed canted window at right under tripartite in shaped gable, horizontal tripartite to centre with 3 closely-aligned small lights appearing as tripartite at outer left, mansard has tripartite and small semicircular-headed dormer windows. Further gable to N elevation with bowed bay at right and 1st floor canted oriel with corbel-type base at left.

Small-pane glazing patterns throughout in like-for-like replacement hardwood double-glazed windows. Rosemary tiles. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and bargeboards.

INTERIOR: fine decorative scheme in place incorporating high quality timberwork, open-beamed ceilings, moulded cornices and picture rails. Heating installed circa 1920, cast iron radiators in situ, those to bowed bays curved. Porch has interior shelving and small metalwork post basket, part-glazed panelled timber door leads to hall with decoratively-tiled floor. Principal ground floor room with panelled dado and dog-leg staircase with plain timber balusters and battered newel; staircase wraps around central inglenook fireplace with panelled overmantel. Dining room has 2 semicircular-arched recesses flanking segmental arched recess over door and circular windows to outer faces of canted wall.

GATE: decorative cast iron pedestrian gate with finialled polygonal cast iron gateposts and unusual opening mechanism.