Airmount House

Corner-sited detached two-storey house, built c. 1900, having three-bay first floor and two- and three-bay elevations. Gable to east elevation, wraparound shopfront to corner, and separate access to residence. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks and canopies to first floor windows set into eaves. Moulded eaves course, with moulded timber bargeboards to gable. Painted rendered walls, with pilasters to corners. Square-headed window opening to north elevation ground floor, segmental-headed openings elsewhere, all with moulded cornices and shouldered and kneed render surrounds, with glazed tiles to window heads, and timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, doubled to two windows of east elevation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows except for one of the double windows, latter being two-over-two pane. Moulded continuous sill course to first floor, painted sills to ground. Square-headed entrance opening to residence on east elevation, with moulded cornice, render surround and glazed tiles to frieze and having timber panelled door with overlight. Timber and rendered shopfront, with moulded cornice, glazed tiled pilasters running through fasciaboard, and having glazed tiling to stall risers. Square-headed timber display windows, tripartite to north elevation, with painted rendered sills and moulded rendered plinth course. Recessed square-headed entrance at corner, door opening boarded up, with tripartite overlight, timber boarding to sides and wrought-iron gate to porch.

This former shop takes advantage of its location on a prominent corner site, through the use of a wraparound shopfront. The large surrounds and pilasters give the idea of applied decoration to the façades, and the detailing of glazed tiles to the shopfront creates an interesting reflective surface. The intrusion of the upper floor surrounds into the roof is unusual in this form, and accentuates the eye-caching nature of this structure.