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Ravenscraig, Frankscroft, Peebles

A Category C Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6486 / 55°38'54"N

Longitude: -3.1958 / 3°11'44"W

OS Eastings: 324841

OS Northings: 640096

OS Grid: NT248400

Mapcode National: GBR 6333.XZ

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.W9C2

Plus Code: 9C7RJRX3+CM

Entry Name: Ravenscraig, Frankscroft, Peebles

Listing Name: Frankscroft, Ravenscraig

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384768

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39178

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384768

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale East

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: Villa

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Description

Dated 1874. Gabled 2-storey 3-bay villa on magnificent N facing site. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, stugged quoins. Segmental-headed openings, stop-chamfered arrises; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

N ELEVATION: gables with filigreed bargeboards and trefoil detail to bracing. Diagonally boarded 2-leaf door at centre with gabled canopy; decorative carved timber brackets and finial. Broad gabled right bay with piend-roofed and corniced canted ashlar window at ground; window above; datestone 1874 in gablehead. Left bay with tripartite window at ground; bipartite 1st floor window breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead.

E ELEVATION: broad gable to right with windows displaced to left at ground and 1st floor; low single storey range to left obscured by timber sheds.

S ELEVATION: 3 gabled bays; advanced gabled stair (?) bay at centre. Modern timber conservatory with access from house at ground to left; 1st floor window breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead. Right bay with projecting gabled single storey range; oculi to W return; apex stack with cockerel weathervane.

W ELEVATION: blank gable with lean-to timber sun-lounge to right. Initialled panel in gablehead.

Timber sash and case and casement windows. Grey slates (fish-scale to porch and dormers); coped stone apex stacks with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

Compare with Borrowlea and Maryfield (see separate listings).

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