Description

Findlay, Stewart and Robbie, 1925. 2-storey 4-bay
asymmetrical villa, harled with brick exposed at base and
eaves. Ashlar Garden entrance and sills.
S ELEVATION: unusual garden entrance at left within tall
segmental arch, tripartite ashlar doorway. Cornice carries
metal balcony, glazing inserted at both levels. Ground
floor to left: 3 round-headed windows between 2 large
flat-roofed canted bays. 4 piended dormer roofs cap the
entrance arch and 3 1st floor windows projecting through
eaves. Top 6 courses of brick exposed and corbelled out
to carry projecting eaves, broken at 3 points by rainwater
goods.
Sides and rear similarly treated. Principal entrance at E
in brick surround, 3 small windows over.
Steep piended red tiled roof. 3 brick ridge stacks.
Small-paned top-hopper windows.
ENTRANCE removed circa 1970 from Perth Road, re-erected
at W Grove Avenue: square buttressed gatepiers with
castellated pyramidal caps and angle masks by Coe and
Goodwin, formerly to Farington Hall, 1852. Rubble-built
boundary walls, with modern railings to Perth Road.

Statement of Interest

Farington Hall, for Albert Edward of Logie Works, was the

first great gothic jute baron mansion. Burned down in

1913, allegedly by Suffragettes. Fragments survive.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630240

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