Daisybank, 18 James Street

Daisybank, located at 18 James Street, is a classical villa attributed to John Paterson, built between 1814 and 1815. This two-storey building with a basement features three bays and a piend roof. The principal elevation showcases a Doric distyle portico and pilaster quoins. The front is constructed from droved orange sandstone ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of roughly squared, snecked sandstone, with painted ashlar dressings. Architectural details include a base course, a ground floor cill course at the front, a first floor cill course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The front has Doric pilaster quoins, quoin-strips at the rear, raised margins around the windows and doors, and consoled cornices above the ground floor windows.

On the south elevation, there is a central two-leaf timber panelled front door topped with a three-pane fanlight set in a moulded architrave. This is accessed by four steps leading to the Doric portico, which features daisy paterae on the frieze and has built-in boot scrapers on the side walls of the steps. The fenestration is regular across the bays, with a narrow area containing two basement windows.

The north elevation includes a two-leaf half-glazed door with a window above it at the center, with regular fenestration in the bays. The side elevations display irregular fenestration and large central wallhead stacks. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the corniced ashlar wallhead stacks have octagonal clay cans. The roof is covered with graded grey slate.

Inside, there is a half-glazed timber panelled lobby door with decorative frosted glass. The entrance hall features a pilastered arch and a curved stone staircase with a plain banister. Original chimneypieces are present in the dining room and two bedrooms, and throughout the villa, there are timber panelled doors in moulded doorframes, along with fairly plain moulded cornicing and picture rails.

The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of coped random rubble, with corniced gatepiers facing James Street. These gatepiers have been walled up to create a smaller pedestrian entrance with a timber gate. Additionally, there are ruinous remains of a former coach house and stables adjacent to the boundary wall on the north side of the house.