Hillside Home, Perth

Hillside Home is a villa dating probably to 1894, attributed to John Young. It is a single-story building with an attic, comprising three bays and constructed in a mock half-timbered style. The walls are built of narrow bands of squared bull-faced rubble, contrasted with ashlar dressings. A raised base course is present. The building includes a bipartite, round-headed stair window. Features include chamfered arrises, timber and stone transoms and mullions.

The west (principal) elevation has a canted five-light transomed window in the bay to the right of centre, with a six-light transomed window above within a jettied gable supported on moulded brackets. A slightly recessed bay occupies the centre, featuring two narrow lights at ground level and a coloured leaded bipartite window above. A further recessed bay is to the left, containing steps leading to a six-light stone-transomed door flanked by windows, and a four-light dormerheaded transomed window breaking the eaves.

The east (entrance) elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the left of centre, featuring a bipartite window at ground level and a low, blank gabled bay projecting to the left. A four-light transomed window is in the gablehead. A slated lean-to porch is located centrally, with a six-light transomed window and a part-glazed panelled timber door with glazed fanlight. An adjacent two-light transomed window is present, along with a half-timbered pediment on the return to the right, and a tiny swept-roof dormer window above. A blank bay is situated on the outer right at ground level, with a transomed four-light dormer window breaking the eaves.

The south elevation incorporates four timber posts with braces supporting a jettied bay to the left, forming a verandah. A stone-transomed door and an adjacent window are set within a recessed face. A gable pierces the roof pitch above, with a broad stack straddling the ridge. A bay to the right of centre contains a boarded timber door, a three-part fanlight, an adjacent window to the right, and a small window to the left.

The north elevation features a single gabled bay with a full-height stepped chimney breast projecting at centre and piercing the gablehead into the stack.

The windows are timber sash and case with small panes, and feature coloured and leaded glass in the porch and stair window. The roof is covered in grey slates. The stacks are of brick with cavetto coves and cans; the eaves overhang deeply with moulded bargeboarding, and cast-iron downpipes have decorative fixings.

The property is enclosed by ashlar boundary walls incorporating decorative ironwork railings and gates.