Excelsior
Drawing and text by kind permission of Jim Bates.

 Designed by W M Robbins, the Excelsior started as two semi-detached villas. This is an exercise in symmetry, each house being a mirror image of the other.

Robbins delight in a variety of materials is evident in this building. The main walls are of a greyish pink stone with Maryland buff brick binding. Windows surrounds are in red brick and freestone. The original roof would have been slate, crowned with an ironwork railing and in the apex of each gable an early example of half timbering.