Description

Circa 1820, re-erected at Spylaw Road circa 1870-75 and enlarged. 2-storey, 3-bay classical villa with later 3-stage Italianate tower and addition to NE, conservatory, greenhouse and stable block; grey (original) and cream sandstone, ashlar front and tower, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and sides with polished or droved ashlar dressings; base course; indented string course above channelled quoins; banded cill course and bracketted eaves to slightly higher NE addition.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: recessed tower to right; channelled ground floor; Greek Doric porch with fluted columns to advanced bay to centre with blocking course bearing tablet, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight, tiled vestibule; architraved window at 1st floor above, framed by pilasters with fluted frieze breaking eaves, cornice and swagged tablet to blocking course; outer bays comprised of single windows in round-arched panels at ground floor, single architrvaed windows at 1st floor above.

TOWER: single windows at 1st and 2nd stages, top stage with moulded and keystoned bipartite windows to each face (SE blind), heavy cornice, balustraded parapet (section missing), corner dies with ball finials.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: later addition to left with bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floor and pedimented timber dormer, bowed dormer with finialled half-conical roof to SW; main 3-bay block; single windows to left bay; single window and secondary door in central bay; shouldered and corniced wallhead stack to right bay.

SW ELEVATION: 4-bay; bay to right of centre advanced with angle pilasters channelled at gorund floor; architraved and pedimented tripartite ashlar window at ground floor with paterae inset to fluted frieze; single window at1 st floor above; single windows to bay left of centre; outer bays comprised of full-height bowed ashlar bays with 3 windows.

NE ELEVATION: 4-bay; engaged tower to left; rubble built addition in re0entrant angle by tower, bay to left of centre with tall bipartite stair window with border glazing and etched glass, bay to right of centre with single windows; advanced later addition to right with carved tablet with entwined letters FB at 2nd floor under scrolled wallhead stack; secondary door, single and bipartite window and pedimented timber dormer on return.

CONSERVATORY: late 19th century elaborate single storey conservatory on ashlar plinth; round-arched openings (some with etched glass) and 2 rectangular rooflights and 1 central ogee-shaped finialled cupola.

STABLE BLOCK AND GREENHOUSE: single storey U-plan stable block to NE (MAcGibbon and Ross, 1878); squared and snecked stugged rubble; exposed rafters to eaves; dormerheaded and gabled hayloft door with kingposts. Adjoining rectangular-plan gabled greenhouse with brick plinth, round arched openings and cast-iron brattishing with thistle motif to raised ridge section; gabled glazed porch to side.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, some 4-pane to rear; Scottish slate piend and platform roof to main block, lead flashings and finials; wallhead stack to NE (see above), grooved wallhead stack to SW of NE addition, 2 central corniced stacks.

INTERIOR: ornate cornices with plaster consoles at ground floor, coved ceiling with plasterwork over stair.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides; obelisk gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Previously known as 16 Spylaw Road. Address changed 12 October 1999. This transplanted classical villa is very similar in design to No 34 Colinton Road, similarly re-erected there in the 1870s. The stable block of Redholme was designed by MacGibbon & Ross in 1878, the same architects made further additions to the house in 1883.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810997

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