Description

Charles Soutar of MacLaren, Soutar and Salmond, 1922. 2-storey and attic with single storey and basement on falling ground, rectangular-plan, 'Queen Anne' style house. Harled brick, red tiles, tall panelled brick stacks with corbelled coping. Brick base course, mainly 8-, 12- and 15-pane sash and case windows with moulded cills, deep dentilled eaves, piended roof.

N ELEVATION: off-centre advanced entrance porch with round-headed arches and coped, shaped gable to roadside, 2-leaf oak studded door; garage attached at left. Asymmetrical fenestration at ground floor; 3 stepped stair windows at centre 1st floor, single at right; rooflights.

S ELEVATION: 5-bay, symmetrical; semi-circular, corniced, distyle Doric portico set on steps at centre (later glazing), with simple iron balustrade above, French doors with attached windows at 1st floor; 2 bays at left and right with single windows at ground and 1st floors; out of character modern dormer at centre.

E GABLE: Myrtle Cottage adjoined at ground. 2 windows at principle floor, 1 window at 1st floor of main house with brick chimneybreast at centre, breaking through eaves with shouldered stack.

W GABLE: 2-bay, symmetrical; French doors at ground floor right, single window at left, 2 windows at 1st floor.

INTERIOR: original plasterwork, panelling, chimneypieces and doors of exceptional quality throughout main house, door furniture, bell pushes and electrical switches retained. Hall: oak cantilevered well stair with barley-sugar balusters; part leaded small-pane windows with mottled glass, decorative plasterwork ceiling. Dreawing room: moulded marble chimneypiece with timber mantle; round-headed glazed alcoves with radiator grilles flanking; plaster panelling and cornice. Sliding doors leading to similar dining room. Study: full height oak panelling with carved foliate moulding and built-in bookcases; chimneypiece similar to drawing and dining rooms, decorative plasterwork ceiling. Bedrooms with finely moulded chimneypieces and built-in wardrobes; some decorative cornices.

MYRTLE COTTAGE: former service wing adjoining at E. N elevation: 2 doors, 4 top-hopper, small-pane windows. S elevation: 5-bay, basement on falling ground; door at centre, tirpartite window at left; 3 single windows at principal floor right, bipartite and bull's-eye window at left.

Statement of Interest

Built for Mr Robert Lindsay, engineer. Soutar was influenced in his design for this house by the work of Sir Edwin Luttyens.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17812481

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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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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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6