Description

Circa 1875. 2-storey and attic 3-bay villa with decorative bargeboards, now offices for St Peter's primary school (listed separately). Grey sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings, bull-faced quoins and dressings to rear. Base course; band course above ground floor; stop-chamfered reveals to canted and bipartite windows; ashlar mullions; ornately carved bargeboards with kingposts to gable and dormers; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with 2-storey canted window, small window to gablehead. Doorway to centre with stop-roll-moulded arrises and bracketted cornice, 2-leaf panelled door; single window at 1st floor above with gabled dormerhead breaking eaves. Bay to right with bipartite window at ground floor in shallow projecting ashlar panel; single window at 1st floor with gabled dormerhead breaking eaves, small blank panel to gablehead.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: M-gabled with single storey addition with half-piended roof to left; apex stack to right gable. Single windows at 1st floor to centre; small windows to gableheads.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay; single and bipartite window to left bay. Single windows off-centre to centre bay. Shouldered wallhead stack to right.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay; gabled bay to left with small window to gablehead; wallhead stack. Rectangular projection with lean-to roof and secondary doorway to centre bay; tall round-arched stair window with coloured glass above. Single windows to right bay.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing, some 12-pane to rear and sides. Green slate roof with red ridge tiles; 2 wallhead stacks, 2 apex stacks (see above). Moulded gutterheads to front. INTERIOR: ornate plasterwork cornice and ceiling rose at principal room at 1st floor.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631336

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2