Description

Circa 1868. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan baroonial style villa with round castellated tower adjoining. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble; coursed stugged ashlar at W elevation. Crowstepped gables; chamfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central pilastered doorpiece with cornice and corniced stepped pediment above; round-arched doorway with keystone and rope moulding: deep-set panelled door; plate glass fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Full-height canted window with dividing cornice and blocking course flanking to outer left; single window at gablehead.Advanced tripartite window with cornice and crenellations flanking to inner right; tripartite window above.

ROUND TOWER: 3-storey tower to outer right; large base course; dividing bands; single windows at ground and 1st floors; 5 single windows encircling 3rd floor breaking eaves; surmounted by machiolations. dividing band, and crenellations.

S ELEVATION: single window at ground floor; fire exit at 1at floor; iron fire escape to eaves; M-gabled.

N ELEVATION: M-gabled single storey service wing with basement; decorative cast-iron staircase to ground floor; single window at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: large unsympathetic flat-roofed extension at ground floor; round-arched tripartite stair window at 1st floor centre; single windows flanking to outer left and right; small single window set in gablehead to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows; grey slate gabled roof; 2 round-arched timber pedimented dormers to W; single pedimented dormer to E; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods; 2 small grotesques at eaves to W; 3 corniced gablehead stacks; moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: bipartite vestibule door with glazed upper panels and leaded fanlight panels; decorative plaster cornices in vestibule and hall; carved wooden bookcase in library.

Low sandstone rubble wall to street, rising to N; large corniced ashlar gatepiers to S. High rubble mutual boundary walls.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796555

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House