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Large baronial villa with extensive conservatory and glasshouse range at the west, designed by George Simpson, architect, 1887-8. Asymmetrical 2-storey house with east entrance front. Bullfaced rubble with contrasting tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Projecting square porch with segmental-headed entrance and crenellated wallhead, and ornate panelled double-leaf door. Porch fronts tower-like central bay rising above ridge with corbelled wallhead and steeply pitched crowstepped 'cap house' roof. Asymmetrical 4-bay south garden front with (right) ground floor projecting bowed 3-light window with corniced and ball finialled wallhead. Two-storey angle drum tower at southwest with narrow ground and first floor windows, deep eaves course with ball ornamentation and bellcast fish-scale conical slate roof with cast iron apex weathervane. Square 3-storey tower rises above west elevation with corbelled and crenellated upper storey with angle bartizans and circular stair turret at northeast. East, west and south upper storey elevations pierced by three narrow windows. Crowstepped gables, shaped coped wallhead and end stacks, slate roofs with decorative red tile ridges.
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NJ05NE0062 - CATHAY HOUSE