Description

1897. 2-storey house, 3 asymmetrical bays, double piled with
further gabled extensions to rear. Dark rubble, contrasting
polished ashlar dressings, chanelled ashlar angle margins.
Gabled frontage with projecting west bay and off-centre porch
linked to contemporary small glazed sun room at left by
shallow lean-to with tiled roof and decorative cast-iron
cresting. Canted bay in ground floor, west gable, with
decorative ashlar parapet. Venetian type windows in 1st floor
gables with ashlar roundels above; small round cast-iron
dormer; projecting eaves with ornate brackets, barge-
boards and canted cast-iron rhones decorated with small
anthemion finials; similarly detailed acroteria; panelled,
corniced and hipped end stacks; slate roof.

Statement of Interest

Built by a Mr Fraser who made his money ostrich farming in

South Africa and originally named Rondeboch or Rhondesbosch.

Information per present owner (1981) House now serves as two

dwellings. Dormer as advertised in MacFarlane's of Glasgow

catalogue; other cast-iron goods probably from same firm.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17828028

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6