The Shian Including Gate, Woodlands Road, Rosemount

The Shian is an early example of a two-story, asymmetrical gabled Arts and Crafts villa, incorporating elements of the Viennese Secession style, likely designed by James Lowe around 1901. A flat-roofed dining room extension was added in 1902, and a later piend-roofed extension was built to the east.

The exterior is characterized by whitewashed harl walls with contrasting raked cills, and a base course. The south-facing elevation features a broad gabled entrance with an integral part-glazed, buttressed porch on the left, and a prominent 1902 flat-roofed single-story bay with an oriel and circular windows on the right. The west-facing garden elevation has a bowed canted window beneath a shaped gable, a horizontal tripartite window to the center, and a mansard roof with tripartite and small semicircular-headed dormer windows. The north elevation includes a further gable with a bowed bay on the right and a first-floor canted oriel with a corbel-type base on the left. The building has an unusual Rosemary tile mansard roof with swept bargeboarding, battered angle buttresses, and semicircular-plan tripartite windows on a battered base. Small-pane glazing patterns are present throughout, using like-for-like replacement hardwood double-glazed windows. Other exterior details include cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and bargeboards, and Rosemary tiles.

Internally, a fine decorative scheme remains, featuring high-quality timberwork, open-beamed ceilings, moulded cornices and picture rails. A heating system was installed around 1920, with cast iron radiators, those in the bowed bays being curved. The porch contains interior shelving and a metal post basket. A part-glazed panelled timber door leads to a hall with a decoratively-tiled floor. The principal ground floor room contains a panelled dado and a dog-leg staircase with plain timber balusters and a battered newel, arranged around a central inglenook fireplace with a panelled overmantel. The dining room features two semicircular-arched recesses flanking a segmental arched recess over the door, with circular windows to the outer faces of the canted wall.

A decorative cast iron pedestrian gate, with finialled polygonal cast iron gateposts and an unusual opening mechanism, is included as part of the property.