Description

Earlier to mid 19th century. Tall 2-storey, 3-bay, classical piend-roofed house converted to offices. Painted ashlar with architraved windows and bracketted cills; squared rubble with ashlar quoins and raised margins to sides and rear. Base and band courses, and eaves cornice with deep blocking course. Stone mullions.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with coupled R-doric column porch with mutuled cornice and blocking course, lugged architraved doorpiece, 2-leaf panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight; slightly-advanced bipartite window at 1st floor and raised pediment above. Outer bays also slightly advanced, each with wide-centre tripartite window to each floor.

SW (CROFT COURT) ELEVATION: slightly advanced bay to centre with narrow window to each floor and dominant shouldered wallhead stack, further window to each floor at right and blank bay to left. Single storey wing set-back to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: advanced block to right of centre with windows to outer bays at each floor, and projecting centre bay with dominant shouldered wallhead stack; slightly set-back bay to left with bipartite window at outer left and panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight to right, 2 single windows to 1st floor. Low modern building adjoining at outer left.

8-, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, except to 1st floor left at NW with fixed plate glass glazing to centre light. Grey slates. Cavetto-coped ashlar stacks.

INTERIOR: some decorative and moulded plasterwork; panelled doors and dog-leg staircase with square-section newel posts and boarded balusters.

Statement of Interest

Originally Bleaton House, the building was taken over by the North Bank of Scotland in 1881 and subsequently converted to local authority offices.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17831097

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)