Alton Grange — Westminster Road

Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built 1904; occupied 1911, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront. For sale, 1985. Pitched diagonal red fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched diagonal red fibre-cement slate roof (breakfront) with part perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond diagonal chimney stacks centred on paired red brick Running bond diagonal chimney stacks on red brick Running bond base having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, timber bargeboards to gables with terracotta finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls (ground floor) on red brick header bond cushion course on red brick English Garden Wall bond plinth with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed red brick header bond cornice; "timber frame" surface finish (half-dormer attic). Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (ground floor) with red brick header bond chamfered sills, and red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed sills, and "timber frame" surrounds framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with red brick English Garden Wall bond piers to perimeter having stringcourses below thumbnail beaded shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.