house, 5, Verona Villas, O'Connell Avenue · NIAH 21521063

End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey red brick and pebbledash rendered house, built, c. 1905, with a three-sided canted bay window, above which the first floor elevation advances forward. Shared dormer window to front span of roof. Gabled corner bays with red brick chimneybreast rising through. Return to rear. Hipped terracotta plain tiled roof with sprocketed timber eaves, and plain bargeboards to gables. Three red brick chimneystacks, one to north gable wall, two to return, each with stringcourse and stepped cornice beneath concrete flaunching, all having moulded clay pots. Shared flat-roofed dormer to front span with pebbledash rendered sides and two-leaf six-pane casement window. Two roof lights to rear span. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Façade and side elevation at ground floor level faced in red brick laid in English garden wall bond, with canted red brick plinth course. Pebbledash rendered first floor of façade advancing over three-sided canted bay window with moulded stringcourse base, and heavy corbel block support to northwest corner. Pebbledash render to north-facing side elevation with smooth render strutwork to all gables. Smooth rendered rear elevation and return. Chimneybreast to north-facing gable with shallow projecting three-sided red brick bay, having diminutive window openings flanking chimneybreast buttress to window pier, rising and tapering before forming a two-pot chimneystack. Square-headed window openings with limestone ashlar block-and-start surround and limestone sill, forming quadripartite opening over bay window with limestone mullions, and two-leaf casement opening over front door, tripartite opening to side elevation at ground and first floor level with limestone mullions. Each with timber casement window having integrated two-pane overlight. One-over-one two-over-two and three-over-three timber sash windows to rear elevation. Three-sided canted bay window with red brick apron, continuous limestone sill course, limestone angle piers, mullion and lintel blocks, and timber casement windows as above. Red brick segmental-arched door opening with limestone threshold step, and doorframe comprising glazed sidelights over red brick base with limestone sill, frosted glazed tripartite overlight and frosted glazed panelled timber door leaf. Tiled porch platform with limestone step. Front site enclosed by stepped rock-faced limestone plinth wall with rounded limestone coping supporting elaborate cast-iron railings. Square-plan rock-faced limestone gate piers with incised lettering: VERONA VILLAS, to capping stones. Elaborate wrought-iron gate. Boundary wall treatment returning along side elevation enclosing site from Verona Esplanade.