Description

William Leiper, 1883; substantial additions by Stewart and Paterson, 1910. 2-storey, asymmetrical L-plan Arts and Crafts/Shavian Old English villa. Stugged, snecked red sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings, fishscale red tile-hanging to jettied gables and part 1st floor. Base course; corbel course at 1st floor; mostly timber-framed windows, canted 1-2-1 with small upper lights; bracketted overhanging eaves; bargeboarded gables.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced porch in re-entrant angle, taller gabled bays flanking. Gabled timber porch on sandstone base, pointed-arch doorway, boarded door, narrow cusped-arch windows flanking with diamond-pane glazing, glazed quatrefoils above, 2 similar windows and quatrefoils on return to right, encaustic tiled porch, half-glazed vestibule door with lead-pane glazing. Tile-hung 1st floor above with bipartite window, honeycomb-pane glazing (1910). Gabled full-height canted windows to right with timber Elizabethan window at ground, diamond-pane glazing; canted window above with lead-pane glazing to fixed upper panes. Lower blank wall to outer right. Advanced bay to outer left (1910), gabled full-height canted window, jettied gablehead; lead-pane glazing to casement windows at ground inset with stained glass panels to centre, geometric-pane glazing to fixed upper panes; window above with plate glass casement windows, honeycomb-pane glazing to fixed upper panes. Depressed-archway with crenellated parapet adjoining garage (1910), to outer left (see below).

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: return of W elevation, bipartite window to left at ground. 4-light semi-circular oriel above with honeycomb lead-glazing to upper lights with jettied gablehead, plate glass to casement windows, honeycomb-pane glazing to fixed upper panes. Tile-hung on return to left at 1st floor. Ashlar mullioned and transomed dormerheaded stair window in re-entrant angle, diamond-pane glazing inset with stained glass panels.

Gabled lower 2-storey wing to left, modern half-glazed porch abutting. Single storey service block (1910), to outer left adjoining NE angle (see below).

E (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled full-height canted window to outer left, plate glass to casements at ground and 1st floor, geometric-glazing to fixed upper panes at ground, honeycomb to upper panes at 1st floor. Window to right at ground, French window to far right. Part tile-hung above with 2 bipartite windows, window to right set in lop-sided gablehead. Lower service wing to outer right with window to centre.

S ELEVATION: full-height canted window to outer left, jettied gablehead, similar glazing to window on E elevation.

Timber-framed glazed loggia to right, with piended and gabled roof.

Tall wallhead stack with moulded angles above to right, engaged canted dormer adjoining to left with honeycomb-pane glazing to fixed upper panes, finialled polygonal slate roof.

GARAGE: single storey, rectangular-plan garage. W elevation; window to gabled bay, tile-hung gablehead. Window to S elevation. Boarded doors to E elevation, window to tile-hung gablehead.

SERVICE WING: 1910. Single storey brick wing adjoining house to NE angle.

Casement windows with lead-pane glazing noted above. Green slate roof, red ridge tiles, red sandstone stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

Originally known as Dorlectote (also Dorelcote), then St Bernard's and now Albion Lodge. Built for Quentin Galbraith. Later almost doubled in size for Wm McGeoch by Steart andPaterson, who added the edroom and billiard room (to 1st floor) wing N of the entrance, the archway and garage and the single storey services wing to the rear to the hosue.

The original house is an identical design to Aros, Rhu (except for the use of half-timbering) built by Leiper circa 1890.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17777766

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