Description

Thomas T Paterson, 1897. 2-storey with basement and attic, 6-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa; No 37 subdivided (1947). Stugged and snecked rubble with contrasting droved ashlar dressings and quoins. Base course; eaves cornice; chemfered reveals.

W (ENTRANCE) elevation: outer bays slightly advanced and ashlar porches set in re-entrant angles at 2nd and 5th bays; Gibbsian doorpieces, architraved and banded doorpieces with keystones and pulvinated friezes; panelled doors; 10-pane fanlights; coped parapets above. Single windows at ground floor to centre bays; bipartite windows above; full-height canted windows to outer bays with moulded blocking course and finials (wire-mesh fenced balcony to dormer right).

N ELEVATION: single window at ground floor, 2 windows at 1st floor.

Sash and case windows with 6-pane upper panels and plate glass lower panels. Grey slate mansard roof; 4 flat-roofed dormer windows, 1 altered as 2-leaf balcony door; single dormer to S; 4 tall shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks and single mutual stack; moulded eaves guttering; some original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR NO 37: encaustic tiles, moulded plaster cornice, glass-panelled tripartite vestubule door.

Low saddleback wall to street.

Statement of Interest

This double villa was built in 1897 for Robert Miller Esq. It stands on land feued by Sir Thomas North Dick Lauder to John Paterson, the architecxt, in 1868. Paterson developed the neighbouring plots in Lauder Road, but sold this site immediately to Rober Logan. Robert Miller acquired the land in 1878.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632574

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