Description

1857, late 19th century wing to (W). 2-storey, 3-bay villa with

Tudor details, single storey wings flanking. Red stugged and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered arrises; ashlar mullions to canted windows; hoodmould to doorpiece and windows at 1st floor; plain bargeboard; stop-chamfered quoins.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: taller gabled bay advanced to right, 2 bays recessed to left with doorpiece in re-entrant angle, 2-leaf boarded

door s, plate glass fanlight, half-glazed vestibule door. Canted window to left with pierced stone parapet with intersecting cusped tracery pattern. Gabled dormerheaded window above breaking eaves. Gabled bay to outer right, canted window at ground, similarly detailed as window to left; window above at 1st floor. Recessed wing to outer left with window to S face.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: door to centre, window to 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: stair window in gabled dormerhead breaking eaves to centre, window to right and left, dormers above. Slightly advanced wing to right with window to N face. Lower single storey block abutting angle to left and adjoining service wing to E.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: window to outer left, taller gabled bay to right with window at 1st floor. Single storey service wing abutting with window to S face and ajoined by screen wall to garage to right.

Mostly 4-pane sash and case windows; 12-lying-pane sash and case to rear elevation. Grey slate roof, ashlar corniced stacks (rendered to E) with original cans, rooflight to S; 2 canted dormers with piended roof to N. INTERIOR: curved stair with iron balusters; corniced ceilings; black marble (now painted) chimneypiece to dinning room.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: semi-circular ashlar coping to rubble wall, ashlar piers with chamfered angles, corniced pier caps.

Statement of Interest

Formerly known as Beechwood Villa and built for Matthew Hamilton, a Glasgow merchant. From 1900-1950 it was the manse for St Brides.

Mirror image of 38 Argyle Street West listed below.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635207

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version