Description

Thomas M Cappon, circa 1900. 2-storey and attic small Edwardian country house, rectangular-plan with projections. Local stone, harled with polished dressings and slate roof; multi-pane sash and case glazing throughout, some uPVC replacements. Tall, deeply corniced stacks mainly wallhead.

S ELEVATION: 2 flat-roofed, 2-storey, large semi-circular bows projecting from gables, and flanking entrance tower and linked by advanced porch; tripartite doorpiece with segmental lintel; cill course at ground and 1st floors; 3 windows to ground and 1st floor bows, bipartites in gable above and in tower; moulded wallhead cornice to tower, pyramidal roof with ornamental weathercock and flanking corniced stacks; lower wing set back at W, tripartite and single window to ground floor, canted oriel and single windows to 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: plain with tripartite stair window.

INTERIOR: panelled hall with chimneypiece, half turn with landings staircase and turned balusters. Original classical style chimneypiece in dining room. Full complement of 17 service bells in back hall.

Statement of Interest

Probably built for Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn. 2 cast-iron gatepiers on plinths erected 1988.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17779272

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)