Description

Circa 1910. 2-storey, L-plan villa with lower gabled stair
block in re-entrant angle, single storey service block
forming court adjoined at rear. Squared and snecked
rubble sandstone 2-storey entrance porch and base
course. White painted harl, red ashlar dressings.
W ELEVATION: entrance to 2-storey canted porch projection
with coped parapet; stair block to left, main gable to
right. Doorway lugged with bolection moulding and blank
square panel above with decorative surround. Window to
left, bipartites with stone mullions to each face at 1st
floor. Single irregular windows at ground and 1st floor
in gable end to right. To left of porch, stair window;
doorway with semi-circular entrance to service court;
decorative railings.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay; roof sweeping down in catslide over
glazed loggia at centre adjoining square projecting
windows in outer bays, rising above eaves of catslide as
piend roofed, tile hung dormers.
E ELEVATION: gable end with windows to right at ground and
1st floor.
Recessed and lower 2-bay wing to left, 2 windows at
ground, windows at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled
dormerheads with roll moulded ashlar surrounds and apex
finials (1 missing). Crowstepped gable end to N.
Piend roofed single storey service wing at rear.
Period glazing; multi-pane casement windows to loggia
and bays, quasi-Venetians to projecting bays at ground.
Sash and case windows to sides and rear; 12-pane
glazing pattern.
Red tiles. Ashlar coped gable wallhead stacks, that to E
intercepting skew to left of gablehead.
Harled end stacks with ashlar coping.

Statement of Interest

Unusual combination of Arts and Crafts main wing and 17th

century details to porch and rear wing. Architect possibly

E Auldjo Jamieson whose The Manse, Nisbet Road, Gullane has

a similar Arts and Crafts design and date. 2 Present Road to

E almost certainly by same architect (listed separately).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804792

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings