Description

Later 19th century. Single storey with attic, cottage ornee. Ashlar with lighter pinnings. Ball and spike finials to gables.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central gabled timber porch; elaborate timber bargeboards; Jacobean style brackets; timber door; bipartite letterbox fanlight; flanking bipartite windows. Single round-arched windows aligned above at attic in gabled dormers; bipartite window to modern flat-roofed dormer linking gables.

4- and 6-lying pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (plate glass to modern attic link). Grey slate roof; timber eaves course; coped gablehead stacks; circular and polygonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND POSTBOX: coped boundary wall enclosing site; single gatepier to right of vehicular entrance to left; wall-mounted postbox to wall to outer right.

Statement of Interest

With Nos 1 and 2, 3 and 4 (see separate list descriptions) this house forms a crescent overlooking St John the Baptist's Tower (see separate list description). Of particular note are the round-arched windows at attic and the ornate timber porch (see also adjacent No 4).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626072

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)