Description

1935. 2-storey and attic plain Scottish Arts and Crafts villa. Thick white painted harl with reconstituted stone dressings. Tall stacks and crowstepped gables; boarded oak doors.5-bay entrance front with 3 bays to left; advanced 2-bay gable to right with projecting pentis-roofed stone tripartite window at ground; single-storey porch in re-entrant angle. 6-bay rear elevation with advanced 2-bay gable to right obscured by piend-roofed service range at ground; stair windows at centre; canted timber mullion and transomed window to left, adjoining back door. Single storey M-roofed garage with partly glazed doors.

Timber sash and case windows with leaded upper sashes, plate glass lower. Grey slates; coped crowsteps and harled stacks.

INTERIOR: fine period interior with many surviving fixtures and fittings to all rooms.

SUMMERHOUSE: hexagonal pavilion-roofed timber summerhouse with windows and glazed doors to front 3 sides.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: stepped harled and coped boundary walls to road, with splayed entrance; round gatepiers with conical coping; shaped timber gates.

Statement of Interest

Built as a wedding present for a daughter of the Galbraith foods family. Its interior is remarkably intact.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17837997

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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