Description

Circa 1865. 2-storey, 3-bay, symmetrical cross-plan house. Stugged squared and snecked cream sandstone. Chamfered arrises; 1st floor windows breaking eaves in gabled dormerheads; exposed rafters and overhanging eaves.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: projecting gabled central bay with deep-set panelled door and 2-pane rectangular fanlight; scrolled strapwork brackets support balustraded balconette above; window at 1st floor. Octagonal apex stack. Flanking bays with timber-mullioned bipartite windows to each floor.

E ELEVATION: blank gable to right; windows to set back bay to left.

S ELEVATION: projecting gabled harled centre bay; windows to flanking bays.

W ELEVATION: gable to left with windows to right at ground and left at 1st floor; windows to set back bay to right. Timber sash and case windows; 10-lying-pane glazing. Grey slates; bargeboards. Apex stacks; ashlar to front, brick to sides.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low boundary wall with saddleback ashlar coping to front; flanking pairs of obelisk gatepiers. Modern wrought-iron gates and railings.

Statement of Interest

The better surviving half of a pair with No 20, and also very similar to No 28. All were perhaps developed by the Crombie family who built Mainhill, 43 Bridgend, which, though grander, is very similar (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630658

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)