Description

David Barclay of H & D Barclay, architects; 1899. 4-bay
symmetrical double-villa. Droved ashlar with polished long
and short work margins and quoins.
Advanced gabled end bays with 2-storey, 5-light mullioned bow
windows, with semi-conical roof set in to gable wall. Steps
oversailing basement to centrally placed doorways with
dwarf-arcaded fanlight and flanked by small pilastered and
pedimented sidelights, double leaf panelled doors. Above
doors tripartite windows; sash windows plate glass glazing;
sidelights and fanlights with good leaded coloured glass.
Continuous moulded band courses over ground. Wooden modillion
eaves; barge boarding at gables. Centrally placed corniced
axial stack with octagonal cans; skew at party wall with
scroll skew-putt. Steeply pitched slate roofs with tiled
ridge. Pierced painted ashlar balustrade to steps.
Flanks: stugged ashlar with polished ashlar quoins.
Off-centre canted oriel rises from corbels at ground through
2 storeys. Rear elevation stugged ashlar. Mostly bipartite
windows. Canted corniced 6-light oriel at 1st floor to right.
Small projecting lean-to porches to both outer bays.

Statement of Interest

Part of Kensington Gate B group.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634073

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]