Description

Late 19th century. 2-storey 3-bay villa. Whinstone rubble with cream sandstone front elevation and dressings. Regular fenestration; chamfered arrises; 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads.

SW (FRONT) ELEVATION: at centre, roll-moulded doorcase with consoled cornice and block pediment; panelled door with plate glass fanlight; projecting bipartite window to right with crenellated parapet. To left projecting gabled window bay, canted at ground (bipartite to front) and gradually corbelling to square at 1st floor; bipartite window; finial at apex. To left, blank set back single storey single bay service wing.

NW ELEVATION: projecting single storey service wing at ground with gable at centre. Main block gabled with window to left at 1st floor; apex stack.

NE (PARK) ELEVATION: stair window at centre; full-height canted window to left with crenellated parapet.

SE ELEVATION: gabled; triangular-headed window to left at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows (4-pane to single windows). Grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles; ashlar coped skews; corbel and gablet skewputts; coped ashlar stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron downpipes (square section) with decorative fixtures and hoppers

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble road with saddleback ashlar coping to road; adjoins park gates; taller wall with boulder coping to park.

Statement of Interest

See separate listing for Victoria Park gates.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645122

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)