Heywood Mount

Villa, white-painted stucco with slate deep-eaved roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles and no chimneys. Two storeys, 3 bays with small 1-storey wing at right angles each end. Tudor Gothic style with large later C19 bargeboards, hoodmoulded casement windows with top-lights and Tudor detail to doorway and bay-window to left. Central 2-storey projecting porch with moulded four-centred arched doorway and French window above with top-lights and hoodmould opening onto a balcony on 3 curved wooden brackets with turned pendants. Thin lozenge-pattern balcony rail. Small depressed arched lights to ground floor side walls, double 2-panel doors. Left and right of porch are cross-windows, a casement pair with 4 top lights (as on The Gables and Broadmead) under hoodmould, the ground floor right window longer and with the top-lights Tudor-arched. Ground floor left canted bay window of 1-2-1 lights, similar to that on The Gables, the top-lights Tudor-arched, and moulded cornice under shallow hipped lead roof. To each side, gable-ended 1-storey pavilion each with coped gable and 3-light casement with Tudor-arched lights and hoodmould. Parallel rear range of equivalent size, the E gable projecting beyond the E gable of the front range. Matching bargeboards. Garden front has gable to left with square bay window, 3-light French window to front and Tudor-arched single-lights to sides. Flat roof with C20 rails in front of first floor French window with top-lights and hoodmould. Three-bay right hand range has hoodmoulded ground floor cross-windows with Tudor arches to top-lights. Longer first floor left window lighting stair, also 2-light with top-lights, the other two are casement pairs with 4 small top lights, as on Broadmead and The Gables/ Gable End. Attached to front right is altered L-plan former stable range, 2-storey with gable to right and detail to match main house.

Porch has encaustic tiles and glazed inner screen with half-glazed door. Entrance hall with staircase rising to rear right. Staircase has original scrolled tread ends, but c1900 cast-iron decorative rails and big panelled newel. Stair light has leaded coloured glazing also of c1900. Coved cornice to entrance hall and stair hall. Rear right room has early C20 fireplace but original ceiling border with thin panels ended in Gothic cusping and quatrefoil. Six-panel doors.