Description

1850. 2-storey, 4-bay classical mansion house, with lower 2-storey wing to rear. Painted ashlar. Deep base course; channelled and corniced ground floor; decorative scroll work to frieze; dentilled eaves course; corniced blocking course. Segmental-headed 1st floor architraved windows with corbelled cills.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: coupled square-column entrance porch; detailed capitals, entablature; low pedimented blocking course; central finial; timber door; letterbox fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor. Flanking windows at ground and 1st floor; ground floor tripartite windows; brackets to shallow pediments over; acroterian motifs. Canted window at ground floor to outer right; central acroterian motifs to pedimented blocking course over; Venetian window aligned above at 1st floor.

W (RACECOURSE ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Ramp to label-moulded entrance to outer left; 2-leaf glazed timber door; split letterbox fanlight; single label-moulded to right at ground floor; regular fenestration at 1st floor (stair from ground floor central bay leads to converted window to right at 1st floor; glazed timber door).

N ELEVATION: harled; modern lean-to at centre of round floor; leaded round-arched stair window centred above, window flanking to left at 1st floor; 2-sotrey addition advanced to outer left.

E ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

Rectilinear pattern sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with lead ridges. Corniced wallhead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: 2 pairs of square-plan gatepiers with segmental headed caps to outer left and right; coped boundary wall enclosing site.

Statement of Interest

Marked as St Lawrence on Ordnance Survey map, 1858. An imposing mansion house, overlooking the former racecourse. Of interest, is the sophisticated classical detailing, including the decorative frieze, acroterion motifs and ground floor channelling.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17837551

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings