Heywood Mount

Heywood Mount is a villa dating from the 18th century, constructed of white-painted stucco with slate roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles, and no chimneys. The main body of the villa is two storeys and three bays, with a small one-storey wing projecting at right angles to each end. The design is in a Tudor Gothic style, featuring large, later 19th-century bargeboards, hoodmoulded casement windows with top-lights, and Tudor detailing to the doorway and bay window on the left side. A central, two-storey projecting porch has a moulded four-centred arched doorway and a French window above, opening onto a balcony supported by three curved wooden brackets with turned pendants; a thin lozenge-pattern balcony rail is present. Small depressed arched lights are visible on the ground floor side walls, alongside double two-panel doors. To the left and right of the porch are cross-windows, including a casement pair with four top-lights under a hoodmould. The ground floor left window is a canted bay of one-two-one lights, with Tudor-arched top-lights and a moulded cornice under a shallow hipped lead roof. Each side of the main block features a gable-ended one-storey pavilion with a coped gable and a three-light casement with Tudor-arched lights and a hoodmould.

A parallel rear range of equivalent size extends to the east, with its east gable projecting beyond the east gable of the front range. Matching bargeboards are present. The garden front has a gable to the left, featuring a square bay window, a three-light French window to the front and Tudor-arched single-lights to the sides. A flat roof with 20th-century rails is situated in front of the first-floor French window, which also has top-lights and a hoodmould. The three-bay right-hand range has hoodmoulded ground floor cross-windows with Tudor arches to the top-lights. A longer first-floor left window illuminates the staircase, and is two-light with top-lights, while the remaining two windows are casement pairs with four small top-lights, reminiscent of those found at Broadmead and The Gables.

Attached to the front right is an altered L-plan former stable range, two storeys in height, with a gable to the right and detailing to match the main house.

The porch contains encaustic tiles and a glazed inner screen with a half-glazed door. Inside, the entrance hall leads to a staircase that rises to the rear right. The staircase retains original scrolled tread ends, but has been fitted with a circa 1900 cast-iron decorative rail and a large panelled newel. The stair light has leaded coloured glazing, also dating to circa 1900. A coved cornice is present in the entrance hall and stair hall. A rear right room contains an early 20th-century fireplace but retains its original ceiling border featuring thin panels ended in Gothic cusping and quatrefoil. Six-panel doors are throughout.