Description

Dated 1872. 2-storey and attic 3-bay villa; greyish sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with stugged ashlar dressings; chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions; plain bargeboarded gables and dormer with king-posts; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters, cusped bargeboards to front.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with 2-storey canted window with half-piend fishscale roof, elaborate cast-iron balcony-guard to 1st floor; enclosed gabled ashlar porch with shouldered arch to centre bay, 2-leaf panelled door, rectangular plate glass fanlight, single window at 1st floor above; bay to right with bipartite window at ground floor, bipartite window at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with carved datestone.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled single storey and attic and single storey rear wings; shouldered wallhead stack to former and to main block.

SW ELEVATION: gabled bay to right with wallhead stack and secondary entrance door at ground floor, single window above, rggle of conservatory to right; single windows at ground floor of rear wing to left, 1st floor window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead.

NE ELEVATION: gabled with wallhead stack (large 2-storey comparatively sympathetic modern extension in stone).

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing; slate roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall to sides with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, cast-iron gatepiers and gate.

Statement of Interest

Previously listed as 6 Spylaw Road, address changed 12 October 1999. The villa is now subdivided into flats and extended to NE, extensive development has taken place in the grounds.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631413

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)