Woodnorton, Sunnyhill Road

This is a large, irregular-plan villa dating to 1881, with a rear addition constructed in 1908. It is built in a Scots Renaissance style and features crowstepped gables, mullioned windows, a steep, flat-topped pyramidal roof to the tower, and strapwork window pediments to the principal (southeast) elevation. The exterior is constructed of squared, bull-faced cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, incorporating a base course, eaves course, a first-floor arcaded band course, and a machicolated eaves course to the entrance tower. Roll-moulded window margins are present on the principal elevation, while elsewhere, margins are chamfered.

The principal (southeast) elevation features a slightly advanced central entrance tower with a roll-moulded arch and two marble steps leading to an internal porch. Above the arch is a transomed and mullioned bipartite window accentuated by a strapwork pediment, with colonnette quoins at first-floor level and cast-iron brattishing to the roof. A gable to the left incorporates a two-story canted window. To the right of the tower, a bay displays a strapwork pediment above a ground-floor window and a stone-finialled, pedimented dormerhead above a first-floor window.

The northeast elevation is M-gabled with a gablehead stack and a projecting, single-storey, gabled service wing to the right. The southwest elevation exhibits irregular fenestration, including a tall, nine-light, mullioned and transomed stair window, a wallhead dormer to the left, and a projecting, single-storey, gabled billiard room extension on raised ground to the outer left. This billiard room extension features a canted window with a corbelled-out gable bearing a monogram and date. The rear elevation also has irregular fenestration.

The villa has plate glass windows within timber sash and case frames. Grey fishscale tiles cover the tower roof while graded grey slate is used elsewhere. Ashlar-coped sandstone stacks feature some octagonal buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

Inside, the main entrance consists of a six-panel timber door within a timber architrave alongside narrow, rectangular side lights, leading to an open porch. The inner lobby boasts a geometric, Gothic-style ceramic-tiled floor, a barrel-vaulted ceiling, and a half-glazed inner door in a timber architrave with a semicircular fanlight and narrow, rectangular side lights. The principal staircase is a timber scale-and-platt design with a timber balustrade, handrail, and ball-finialled square newels. The 1908 billiard room extension has a fine decorative plaster ceiling, a Lincrusta frieze, a timber chimneypiece with Classical detailing (including garlands and cherubs), and copper Art Nouveau finger plates on the doors. The pantry retains original timber cupboards and a sliding service hatch to the kitchen. Seven-panel timber doors are used in the principal ground-floor rooms, while four-panel timber doors are found elsewhere. Decorative plaster cornices are present throughout, along with a fine Classical drawing room chimneypiece with figurative plaster detail, a marble dining room chimneypiece with good Delft tiles, and some plain timber chimneypieces. Remnants of working timber shutters are also visible.