Llanover

Detached three-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1920, facing south with gabled breakfront to one side with a covered balcony beneath projecting gable over a three-sided bay window at ground floor level. Additional three-sided canted bay window to façade. Two-storey hipped and gabled returns to rear with projecting stair hall bay, and ground floor extension. Hipped slate roof with intersecting hipped and gabled slate roof structures, all having clay pots. Three pebbledash rendered chimneystacks, two to ridge of main roof and one to gable of return with stepped brick capping, rendered flaunchings and plain clay pots. Tall modern rendered chimneystack to extension. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick faced front elevation laid in English garden wall bond, with limestone plinth course. Pebbledash rendered gable wall with timber studs rising from bressumer on gable, which is partly supported by timber shafts rising from timber framed balcony parapet, which forms a prolonged flat roof over bay beneath, and is supported by timber brackets rising from limestone corbels. Roughcast rendered walls to sides and rear. Square-headed and round-headed window openings with red brick reveals to façade, rendered to rear, all having limestone sills, and original tripartite six-pane casement windows. One modern timber casement to rear. Single-pane casements with nine-pane overlights, separated by mullion and transom to bay windows. Cylinder glass surviving throughout. Porch comprising red brick and limestone plinth walls supporting timber frame and lean-to slate roof, with raised tiled entrance platform arrived at by two limestone steps. Square-headed door opening with rendered soffit and reveals, simple doorframe and frosted glazed timber-panelled door and overlight. Landscaped front site. A winding stone footpath leads to front door from North Circular Road through a lawn enclosed by high walls and a pair of square-profile piers of rock-faced ashlar limestone with stone lintel and modern timber pedestrian entrance gate with grille.

An impeccably maintained early twentieth-century suburban house with an array of notable architectural details to the exterior. Sensitively extended to the rear. This house forms part of a group of well-crafted early suburban architecture, each of which is stylistically individual, yet with a number of similarities suggesting that a single architect/developer may be responsible for each house.