Description

Early 19th century gabled 2-storey 3-bay L-plan house, altered and extended to square by James P Alison, 1897. Cream rubble with smooth ashlar margins, stugged ashlar quoins. Cills.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3 bays with panelled door and rectangular fanlight at centre; doorcase with moulded architrave and cornice. 1st floor windows above and to left breaking eaves with pedimented dormerheads. Single window at ground. To right, full-height canted bay with cornice above ground floor and moulded eaves.

Stone ball on simple iron bracket at SW angle. W ELEVATION: M-gabled; 4 irregularly disposed bays. Advanced single storey 3-bay range with door at centre and piended roof adjoins N gable at ground to S, and extends to N; single window in S return wall; narrow window to immediate right. At 1st floor, single window to left, stair window with stone mullion and transom to right. S gable with window at upper left and lower right. Gablehead stacks. N ELEVATION: 3 bays; 2 identical left bays with windows to both floors flanking gablehead stack. Panelled side door with rectangular fanlight between central and right bay; right bay with bathroom window at ground, bipartite window above. Advanced single bay single storey range to right, with split door under gable. E ELEVATION: blank gable with stack to left, slightly advanced. 2 identical bays to right with windows to both floors, 1st floor windows breaking eaves with open pedimented dormerheads. Plate glass timber sash and case windows, 12-pane to single storey range. Rubble stacks with stugged ashlar dressings and coping. Ashlar coped skews, scrolled skewputts with rosettes. Grey slates. Cast-iron downpipes. INTERIOR: original (1897) grained panelling in Hall and Dining room with corresponding Jacobethan fireplaces. Panel to right of S window in Dining room conceals peep hole. Old, but thoroughly rebuilt irregular M0roofed garages to N.

Statement of Interest

Originally the homne of James Veitch, the astronomer. Alison added skews and skewputts, the doorcase, canted window and pedimented dormers to front, and rebuilt the rear of the house. The N wall contains a pinhole, perhaps for a telescope, accessed through a timber panel in the Dining rrom. There was also a stone ball attached to a spike on the NE corner of the house (recently broken, but still nearby) which surely related to Veitch's profession.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635904

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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