78 Ninian Road

78-79 Ninian Road is a reflected pair of two-and-a-half-storey, two-bay houses designed in the freestyle influenced by Norman Shaw's Old English style. The houses are constructed of brick with painted freestone dressings and slate roofs with brick end stacks.

The main frontages are symmetrical about a central axis. The entrances are positioned in the narrower inner bays beneath upper-storey balconies. The recessed, open-fronted porches feature elliptical arches with continuous mouldings, decorative tiles to the dado level, and half-glazed panel doors with side and overlights. The balconies project on moulded corbels with wall shafts and are fitted with neo-classical cast iron balustrades. They have canopies beneath catslide roofs with scrolled ironwork details beneath the eaves, and half-glazed doors providing access.

The wider outer bayed sections feature prominent gables. These contain two-storey three-light canted bay windows incorporating sashes, with coloured glass panels set above the transoms in the upper storey. The gables project on ornate diagonal wooden brackets mounted on short brick wall shafts and are tile-hung with bands of fish-scale tiles. Each gable contains a five-light attic window, with the gables projecting further above on additional brackets. The houses share a single gabled roof dormer positioned centrally between them.

The left side wall (No 78) is rock-faced to the lower storey and roughcast above. It contains an external brick stack positioned right of centre, to the left of which is a bay window with brick dressings. Two sash windows in brick surrounds sit above this bay, with a triangular dormer above them. A lower rear wing incorporates an oriel window.

The right side wall (No 79) is rock-faced stone to the lower storey and rendered above, with a canted bay window. An attic window with a gablet sits in the upper right section.

Both houses have hipped roofs to the rear, with wings set at a lower eaves line featuring half-hipped roofs and brick stacks.