Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

house — Greenpark Villas

house
View what I want to do
house — Greenpark Villas
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Terraced two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1890, with a centrally-placed red brick half-dormer window flush with façade at second floor level, and a single-storey red brick three-sided canted bay window. Two-storey return to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with plain terracotta ridge tiles. Decorative timber bargeboard and finial to apex of half-dormer. Red brick chimneystacks to party walls, each having a stretcher brick stringcourse and dog-tooth enriched cornice, and plain clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick façade laid in English garden wall bond, with terracotta courses at springing of window arches at ground and first floor level wrapping around bay window, having a hemispherical-moulded detailing at first floor level and nail-head moulding at ground floor level. Rendered rear elevation. Segmental-arched window openings with pre-cast lintels having elaborate detailing and keystone, red brick reveals, limestone sills and one-over-one timber sash windows with some cylinder glass surviving. Round-arch porch door opening with red brick pilasters having cast terracotta capitals joined by over-door enriched by cast foliate spandrels and Bacchus mask to keystone beneath a cornice, which continues over opening of neighbouring house. Original timber doorframe comprising sidelights and margin-paned overlight with flat-panelled timber door. Site enclosed from the road by a red brick plinth wall with terminating red brick piers, having stop-chamfered corners, and painted capping stones. Cast-iron panelled railings to plinth wall cast-iron gate posts and cast-iron gate.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.