Auburn House — Auburn Villas

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey red brick house, built in 1904, with a paired round-arched doorcase, three-sided bay windows and gabled half dormer. Distinguished by cast yellow terracotta detailing. Two-story return to rear and flat-roofed accretion added c. 1990. Pitched slate roof with intersecting front gable dormer roof. Half-dormer to rear span. Pitched slate return roof with terracotta cresting to ridge. Red brick chimneystacks with yellow brick stringcourse and dog-tooth course beneath cornice and concrete flaunching. Plain clay pots. Trellis motif to timber bargeboard to front dormer gable and detailed eaves course. Square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods with trefoil clasps. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with flush mortar pointing. Moulded yellow clay stringcourses at ground and first floor level at the springing of the window arches. Cast yellow clay cornice to red brick bay window surmounted by concrete blocking course supporting wrought-iron cresting. Rendered side and rear elevations. Segmental-arched window openings with cast yellow clay lintels with notched edge and incised chevron and rosette detailing. Red brick reveals, limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows with multiple-pane coloured glass light integrated with upper sash. Cylinder glass throughout. Square-headed window openings to rear with uPVC glazing. Doorcase comprising red brick pilasters with stylised cast yellow terracotta capitals from which springs an arch with mask keystone. Arch squared off above with cornice and foliate panelled spandrels. Limestone steps leads to encaustic tiled entrance porch. Internal doorcase comprising leaded coloured glass sidelights over panelled timber bases, tripartite leaded coloured glass overlight and raised and fielded panelled timber door with leaded coloured glass panelling. Red brick screen wall surmounted by cast-iron railings flanking arched pedestrian gate giving access to rear site. Gate embellished by cast yellow segmental lintel and blocking course over moulded brick cornice. Mild steel gate, c. 1990. Front site enclosed by red brick plinth wall supporting concrete coping and cast-iron railings.