Major House

Major House is an early 19th-century, two-storey house with a service wing, constructed from whitewashed roughcast rubble stone and topped with slate roofs. The building is arranged in an L-shape, featuring stone end and ridge stacks on the main house, and a red brick ridge stack along with a west end stack on the service wing, which is now known as Major Lodge.

The east front of the main house has a three-window range of 12-pane sash windows, complete with slate sills and painted stucco labels that resemble those found on Nos 3 and 4 across the street. The entrance boasts a fine six-panel door with four fielded panels, panelled reveals, and a plain overlight, topped by a carved scrolled wooden panel. An attractive painted timber pedimental open porch supported by slim bulbous columns features half-column responds, scrolled brackets at the capitals, and fretted bargeboards on the pediment. The north wall is roughcast, while the rear is made of rubble stone with a stair projection.

Major Lodge has a north front that matches the height of the main house and features casement windows with top-lights, along with similar stucco labels. To the left, there are triple casements on each floor, a door and a small pair of casements on the ground floor to the right, and a pair of casements with top-lights on the first floor to the right. The door includes an oval glazed panel and is sheltered by an open pedimental porch supported by two slender iron posts, with a slate gable above. The door also has a raised stucco surround, and there is a garage on the west end wall.

The porch of the main house is part of a group of uniquely styled variations on classical designs found in Newport, which includes Victoria Lodge on West Street, Ivy House on East Street, J J Brown premises on Market Street, Carningli on East Street, and Bethlehem Baptist Chapel.