Description

Patrick H Thoms, 1899. 2-storey and single storey and attic, L-plan, villa. Pink bull-faced snecked rubble, ashlar dressings, sandstone rubble at service wing, grey-green slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles. Base and eaves course; windows mainly sash and case, single pane at lower and 6-pane at upper sashes, transoms and mullions at canted and stair windows; segmental dormerheads with ashlar coped skews and skewputts at W, gable dormerheads with kneelers at S, shallow ogival roof at projecting SW corner tower; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and bulbous hoppers; moulded wallhead and ridge stacks with squat terracotta cans; pyramidal and piended-roofs.

S ELEVATION: 4-bay. Wide elliptically-arched, roll-moulded opening to recessed porch at centre, projecting steps with low walls flanking, timber balustrade at right with seat, encaustic tile floor, 5 panelled door with camfered margins; tripartite stair window at 1st floor with rectangular leaded lights, gablehead above. Gablehead bay at right with bipartite at ground and 1st floor. Bay at left; 2 windows at ground floor, coped parapet, 1st floor recessed and blank. Bay at far left with canted window at left return, corbelled to round corner tower with 4 plate-glass windows at 1st.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor centre, canted window at right corbelled to round corner tower at 1st floor; canted window at left with coped mannered parapet, tripartite at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: projecting service wing at right with door window and flat-roofed dormer in left return elevation; windows at ground and 1st floors right in main house.

GATEPIERS AND WALLS: 2 round-section, coped gatepiers with bull-faced coursers at S, adjoining coped wall at left and at right with railings.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17813594

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990