Description

Osmund Cooke, 1890-92. Gothic residential building, of 3
storeys and attic; rectangular plan. Squared and
coursed bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings, base
and cill courses, cornice and parapet; chamfered
reveals, ashlar mullions and transoms.
S ELEVATION: 6 asymmetrical bays. Pointed-arch column-
flanked doorway at centre with hoodmould and carved
keystone corbel supporting pedestal for intended statue;
fanlight bearing gilded St Mungo's Retreat. Bipartites
throughout mainly paired, mullioned and transomed ground
and 2nd floors. Hoodmoulded pointed arch also 1st floor
with oculus in each apex. Full-height canted bay to
outer right, of 4 bipartite each floor lights and with
decoratively finialled polygonal piend roof. Parapet
indented with square panels forming frieze, each inset
with variously carved ornate terracotta tiles. Gabled
dormer at centre, with pointed arch bipartite window,
marked by granite columns and small cartouche in apex
above; gabled skewputts and foliate finial.
E ELEVATION: harled; formerly adjoining building to E
now demolished. Cross finial to rear gable.
Plate-glass sash and case windows with diamond lead-
paning above transoms. Grey slate roofs, off-set apex
stacks with neck bands detailed as parapet and with
pie-edge coping. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles.
Original decorative gutter fittings retained.
RETAINING WALL, PIERS, GATE AND RAILINGS: ashlar coped
retaining walls; ashlar gatepiers with gablet coping;
decorative cast-iron railings and gates.

Statement of Interest

Adjoined at W by St Mungo's Roman Catholic church. Style

derived from High Victorian Gothic.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795254

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)