Description

Circa 1900. 2-storey subdivided villa with corner tower. Cream

sandstone, squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with polished dressings, coursed rubble to rear and side. Base course; moulded cill course to 1st floor of principal elevations; overhanging bracketted eaves with dentilled cornice; stacks with moulded coping.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: bay to left of centre with roll-moulded round-arched keystoned doorway, 2-leaf panelled door and plate glass fanlight, Corinthian columned doorpiece with heavy fluted corbels above carrying balcony to 1st floor window with parapet of pierced quatrefoils. 2-storey canted window with chamfered reveals to outer left, finialled piend roof. Windows to right of centre. 2-storey quadripartite bowed corner tower to outer right, conical roof with elaborate iron finial.

SW (BINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay with secondary doorway; regular fenestration and wallhead stack over blank bay to left.

NE ELEVATION: 3-bay; regular fenestration to left bays; 2 wallhead stacks.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: M-piended roof, wallhead stack to left; modern forestair to secondary entrance at 1st floor; irregular windows; later single storey extension to right.

Some timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, mostly replacement windows. Green slate roof, metal flashings and red ridge tiles and finials; 4 wallhead stacks (see above). Moulded eaves gutters.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: low rubble wall with saddleback coping, growing taller in Binnie Street with semi-circular coping, panelled gatepiers with semi-circular pedimented caps to Barrhill Road. Decorative railings obscured by hedge.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634664

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)