Drayton Villa

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1849-50, with porch to front and two-storey extension (1865-6) to west with full-height canted bay. Sold, 1934, to accommodate use as parochial house. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, open eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening to porch , flanked by blank recessed panels with double timber panelled door and stained glass overlight. Tooled limestone steps over basement to door. Two-storey stone outbuilding to west with hipped slate roof, lattice windows and round-headed door openings with timber battened doors and petal fanlights, surrounded by stone wall with ashlar gate piers and corrugated-iron gate. Brick-lined tunnel connecting outbuilding to house with cut limestone voussoirs to round-arched entrance. Walled garden with orchard to west, behind outbuildings. Site bounded to front by stone wall with cut stone coping and tooled stone gate piers with fluted dome capping and sweeping wrought-iron railings to entrance.

Once the home of a member of the prosperous Goodbody family, this well proportioned house retains much of its original fabric including hornless timber sash windows. Although modest in design, the building's façade is enlivened by a Classically-detailed porch with a decorative cast-iron work parapet, the later extension showing a polygonal bay window. The nearby coach house-cum-stable outbuilding displays hub-and-spoke petal fanlights and lattice windows. The brick-lined subterranean tunnel is a noteworthy feature, linking the house and the stable yard, while a walled garden and gate screen complete a remarkably intact urban estate.