Description

Charles Wilson, 1850, extended in twentieth century.
Vigorous Scots Baronial, 2-storey, ashlar villa. All gables
crowstepped with strapworked pediments to single light
windows at 1st floor. Most windows have roll-moulded
architraves. Continuous ground floor cill-course.
E elevation: Roman Doric columned portico with strapworked
parapet in advanced left gable. Single windows centre.
Advanced central 2-storey and attic gable, 3-light ground
floor window shallow advanced with stepped parapet. Attic
light flanked by corbelled turrets. Single storey and attic
wing to N with later dormer and advanced gable.
Tower: at re-entrant SW angle, corbelled out from circular
to square plan. Single lights at top stage, corbelled eaves,
pyramidal roof and weather-vane.
S elevation: advanced gabled bay to right, canted window
with strapworked parapet at ground floor. Projecting
northern bay vestibule with Venetian treatment, circled
windows over with swagged gabletheads.
W elevation: 2 advanced gables with ground-floor canted bays,
that at right with strapworked parapet. Centre altered stair
window.
Tall ashlar stacks with separate octagonal shafts.
Slate roofs, fish-scale at turrets. Sash and case windows,
2- and 4-pane glazing pattern, lying-panes to service wings.
2-storey harled addition at NW.
Rear 2-storey U-plan service ranges, with additions.
INTERIOR: subdivided but retains notable plasterwork,
mirrored overmantle.
LODGE: single storey, L-plan stugged ashlar, Crowstepped
gables, canted V-window to W. Crowstepped porch in re-entrant
angle with flat-roofed extension. Slate-hung addition to S.
Chamfered stacks, slate roofs. Windows sash and case, 2-pane
glazing pattern.
Ashlar gatepiers and stepped shouldered arched pedestrian
entrance with armorial. Boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

For John Symers, Banker. Subdivided. Parapet over main

dntrance damaged circa 1980.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811926

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