Menai Ville

Menai Ville is a row of eight houses built in a striking Gothic style. The buildings are finished in stucco, likely over stone, with some exposed rubble-stone visible at the rear, and feature slate roofs set back behind parapets. They are two stories high with attics, and the main façade faces the Strait, showcasing bold architectural details and a lively rhythm created by the alternating two-story bay windows and attic gables, which are wider above the bay windows.

Each entrance bay features single-light windows above and narrower attic gables. All openings are framed with stop-chamfered surrounds. Although the window details have been renewed, they appear to follow the original design, which includes a high-set transom. The doorways have pointed arched heads with hoodmoulds supported by corbels, alternating with the bay windows; the end houses have entrances on their return elevations. Above the doorways and in the attic storey over the bays, there are single-light windows with pointed-arched lights, and the attic windows are connected by a continuous sill band and hood mould.

The eaves cornice over the bay windows features heavy ball-flower detailing, and there are panelled aprons beneath the bay windows, along with continuous paired string courses at the first-floor level. The southern return elevation has been modified, but the original entrance remains within a two-story, flat-roofed porch extension. This porch is flanked on each floor by transomed windows with chamfered surrounds, and there are paired steep gabled dormers with pointed arched windows. The string courses and sill band continue from the main elevation.

On the northern elevation, there is a single central dormer above a two-story canted bay window, which is flanked on the first floor by pointed arched lights. The rear of the row follows conventional urban planning, with each house having a rear wing; some 12-pane sash windows remain, although most details have been altered. The building has not been inspected.