Description

John Murray Robertson 1875. 2-storey and tower with attic, irregular-plan, Italianate villa. Shuttered concrete, grey slate roof. Base course, continuous cill course and hoodmould at 1st floor, some diaper work friezes at 1st floor; plate glass sash and case windows, moulded architraves at ground floor; bracketted eaves, exposed roof collars at gables; flat-roofed tower with balustraded parapet; moulded stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay. Entrance tower in re-entrant with open pilastered porch at ground floor, single windows at 1st floor, paired at 2nd with incised angle capitals; gabled bay at left with 2 windows at ground floor, 3 at 1st; lower 2-storey bay recessed at far left, regrettably modernised and extended; recessed bay at far right with windows at ground and 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay. French doors with integral windows flanking at ground floor centre, tripartite window at 1st; full-height, 5-light canted window with piended-roof at far right; projecting gable at far left, full-height rectangular 4-light window with side lights.

E ELEVATION: 3 windows at ground floor and former window opened as door, 4 windows at 1st floor, gablehead at left; slightly advanced lower gable at far right with paired windows at ground and 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay, outer bays lower and advanced, plain and considerably altered.

INTERIOR: main staircase removed, some original chimneypieces.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: 2 pyramidal capped gatepiers with geometric frieze, quadrants and similar piers flanking; adjoining coped wall at Ralston Road, all of shutteredd concrete construction.

Statement of Interest

Beachtower was built for Andrew Adie and later occupied by Lord Provost Hunter who added a conservatory in 1897 (Charles and Leslie Ower, demolished). The house is important as an ealry example of the use of shuttered concrete and therefore A listed; see also Moyness, 76 Grove Road, West Ferry, by the same architect (1876). Beachtower is now sub-divided into 6 flats.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17575974

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)