Merlin — Coleville Road

Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1840, with three-bay east and two-bay west elevations, flat-roofed Doric portico addition to front and two-storey addition to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, sheeted overhanging eaves, moulded eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Paired moulded eaves brackets to rear addition. Painted rendered brick walls. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-three pane windows to addition and barred windows to basement. Portico has paired columns to front and single engaged columns to rear, all on cut limestone plinths. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf door and moulded lugged-and-kneed surround, approached by flight of limestone steps. Retaining interior features. Sandstone boundary walls to rear with pedimented dressed sandstone entrance carriage archway comprising segmental-arch opening with dressed sandstone plinths, imposts, voussoirs and pediment, having timber battened doors, and with cast-iron weather vane above. Glasshouse to site with pitched roof, timber ridge crestings, brick plinth walls with limestone sill course and gable-fronted entrance with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf door, carved timber bargeboards and finial and limestone step.