Description

Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan house in classical terrace, Doric columned doorcase with plain cornice and frieze. Heavily droved ashlar with stone quoins, squared and snecked rubble to rear, base course and eaves cornice; architraved regular windows; stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions to canted windows.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: centre deep-set panelled door with plate glass fanlight, full-height canted window to right and windows to left at both floors; cast-iron rooflight at centre with flanking slate-hung canted dormers.

N ELEVATION: door slightly to left of centre with windows in bays to right and left, single storey lean-to extension to outer right abutting wall of neighbouring property; stair window to centre, 1st floor with 2 windows to right and further window in bay to left of centre; modern rooflight above.

Plate glass glazing in modern uPVC windows. Graded grey slates, harled stack with cans to E.

INTERIOR: dog-leg stair with decorative cast-iron balusters and wooden handrail, decorative cornicing and slender colonnettes at bay window.

GAZEBO, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: 19th century polygonal gazebo with slated roof (rubble with modern repairs) and pointed window openings. Low saddleback-coped boundary walls to S, and terrace walls to N with decorative cast-iron railings, coped rubble boundary walls to N.

Statement of Interest

Owner has traced documents (post 1828) to the original owner James Murray in East India Service and Singapore Merchant Navy.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56628496

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)