79 Ninian Road

78-79 Ninian Road is a reflected pair of 2½-storey, 2-bay houses built in a freestyle influenced by Norman Shaw's Old English style. They are constructed of brick with painted freestone dressings and feature slate roofs with brick end stacks.

The front elevations are symmetrical and highly ornamented. Entrances are positioned in the narrower inner bays and sit beneath upper-storey balconies. The recessed, open-fronted porches have elliptical arches with continuous mouldings, decorative tiles to the dado, and half-glazed panel doors with side and overlights. The balconies project on moulded corbels with wall shafts and are furnished with neo-classical cast iron balustrades. Above each balcony is a canopy set beneath a catslide roof with scrolled ironwork beneath the eaves. The balconies themselves have half-glazed doors.

The wider outer gabled bays feature 2-storey, 3-light canted bay windows incorporating sashes, with coloured glass 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 5-light attic window, above which the gables project further on brackets. The houses share a single gabled roof dormer at the centre.

The left side wall of No 78 is rock-faced to the lower storey and roughcast above. It has an external brick stack positioned right of centre, to the left of which is a bay window with brick dressings. Above this are two sash windows in brick surrounds and a triangular dormer. A lower rear wing includes an oriel window.

The right side wall of No 79 is rock-faced stone to the lower storey and rendered above, with a canted bay window. In the upper right portion is an attic window with a gablet.

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