81A Ninian Road

81A Ninian Road is part of a reflected pair of 2½-storey 2-bay houses built in the freestyle influenced by Norman Shaw's Old English style. The building is constructed of brick with Bath stone dressings and a slate roof, with panelled brick stacks positioned to the sides and rear.

The entrances are located in the narrower inner bays. Projecting porches feature rusticated elliptical arches with moulded imposts, surmounted by elliptical keyed oculi. Inside the porches are decorative tiles to the dado, half-glazed fielded panel doors (with stained glass to the adjacent house), and side and overlights. Above the porches are balconies behind swan-necked pediments to brick parapets, with replaced windows. The balconies at the paired house have been removed.

The wider outer bays have intermittent stone quoins in a notional rustication. Two-storey canted bays feature 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, with the upper lights containing coloured glass above the transoms in the lower storey. The upper storey has small-pane upper sashes with elliptical arches to the meeting rails and single pane lower sashes. A broad rock-faced sandstone band spans between storeys, wrapped around the angles. The canted bays support projecting gables further supported by pairs of ornate diagonal wooden brackets on corbels. The gables are tile hung with bands of fish-scale tiles, projecting further forward on curved brackets above oriel windows. The oriel windows contain paired sashes with elliptical arches to the meeting rails, small-paned upper sashes and single pane lower sashes.

The right side elevation faces Morlais Street and incorporates a separate dwelling (No 81a). This elevation has an external brick stack on the left side, terminating the sandstone band wrapped around the angle, and tile hanging beneath the eaves. A canted bay window is partly cut down to form a doorway, with two windows under flat arches in the upper storey and a raked dormer above, all with replaced glazing in original openings. To the right of the bay window are two segmental-headed 4-pane sash windows, above which is an oriel with replaced windows. A crenellated wall further right conceals a lean-to roof behind.

The left side wall is similar, with an external stack; to the right of it the wall is rock-faced stone, to the left it is roughcast. Both houses have 2-storey rear lean-tos with roughcast walls, brick dressings, and replaced windows.