Description

John Paterson (initialled "JP"), dated 1867. 2-storey with basement. 4-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan double villa. Squared and snecked rubble; snecked and stugged ashlar with polished dressings at W (entrance) elevation. Base and eaves courses; quoin strips with noon-shafts and miniature carved capitals; bracketted cornice; nook-shafted margins and mullions with variety of foliate capitals; windows mainly round-arched at ground floor and segmental at 1st floor with architraved lintels.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance at 2nd and 3rd bays; round-arched doorpieces flanked by colonettes with carved foliate capitals; deep-set 2-leaf panelled doors; round-arched plate glass fanlights. Single windows above entrances; advanced bays flanking with full-height canted windows with dividing cornices.

N ELEVATION: single windows at basement, ground and 1st floors; basement entrance; datestone beneath cornice return.

S ELEVATION: single windows at basement, ground and 1st floors; basement entrance; datestone beneath cornice return.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; moulded eaves guttering; shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks to N and S.

INTERIOR (NO 41): encaustic-tiled vestibule; ornate plaster cornices; cast-iron balustrade.

Very low saddleback wall to street; garage attached to S.

Statement of Interest

This double villa is very similar in design to Nos 43 and 45, and 49 and 51 Lauder Road, also by John Paterson.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17799090

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)