Rossbeg Villa

Detached three-bay two-storey house, ----, on a symmetrical plan; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with bull nose-detailed rendered panelled quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with step threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Round-headed flanking window openings with moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired round-headed central window openings (first floor) with concrete sill, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with concrete sill courses, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

A house representing an important component of the twentieth-century domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Westport with the architectural value of the composition, one evoking strong comparisons with an earlier townhouse (extant 1897) in Newport Street (see 31212023), confirmed by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking Westport Quay; the compact symmetrical footprint centred on a streamlined "Venetian" doorcase; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by polygonal bay windows. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition.