Description

Circa 1868. 2-stortey with attic, 4-bay symmetrical restangular-plan double villa with single storey pavilions. Squared and snecked rubble; stugged ashlar with polished dressings to S elevation. Base and eaves courses; long and short quoins; raised and shaped window surrounds; bracketed cills.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows at ground floor centre; tripartite windows above; slightly advanced round-arched doorpieces flanking to left and right, with keystones, carved consoles, and cornices; deep-set panelled doors; plate glass fanlights. Full-height canted windows with dividing cornices flanking in outer bays. Single storey pavilioned service wings adjoining. 4 canted dormers at attic.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: service wings at ground floor; blank above.

N ELEVATION: 6-bay; round-arched stair windows at 2nd and 5th bays; single dormers braking eaves with cat-slide roofs above. Single windows at ground and 1st floors in remaining bays. Bipartite dormers at 1st, 3rd 4th, and 6th bays. Secondary entrances with fanlights to service wings to outer left and right.

Plate glass 4-pane and 8-pane glazing patterns regularly placed in sash and case windows. Grey slate pitched roof; lead flashing; coped gables 2 corniced wallhead stacks; 1 corniced mutual stack; moulded eaves guttering.

INTERIORS: not seen 1990.

Low coped wall to street, rising to E; high coped mutual walls, and boundary wall to Sciennes Road.

Statement of Interest

This double villa is prominently sited on the central axis of Lauder Road and is a good example of a complete double villa of this date.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632570

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014