Description

James Bow Dunn, 1913-14, extended by James Gillespie & Scott, 1932. Manorial 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, piend-roofed, symmetrical villa. Pinkish snecked Hailes rubble with tile-hung dormer detail, and deep Caithness-slated bellcast roof swept over eaves. Low single storey and attic service wing to E, with low-swept bellcast roof, as main block. Stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with projecting parapetted ashlar entrance porch, steps lead to broad doorway with 2-leaf timber door and oval top-lights flanked by multi-paned windows set in swept, concave-curved flanks. Single window over centre bay at 1st floor close to wallhead, eaves carried across lintel. Each outer bay with 3 windows at ground and bipartite windows with tile-hung, swept dormerheads breaking eaves at 1st floor. Long horizontal box dormer (original) with full-height, paired centre and flanking single windows over centre bay.

E ELEVATION: small square single dormer window to centre in slope of roof with tall, flanking end stacks.

W ELEVATION: dormer window as E elevation but with massive flue stepped to tall single stack.

SINGLE STOREY WING TO E: asymmetrical wing with single off-centre piend-roofed dormer window facing S, and end stack to E.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Caithness slates. Coped and shouldered, squared rubble stacks with full complement of cans; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997 (see Notes).

GARDEN ENCLOSING WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped, squared and snecked bull-faced rubble enclosing walls; quadrant entrance screen wall with carriage entrance flanked by pyramidal-coped gatepiers and pedestrian entrance to SE; studded and panelled timber gates.

Statement of Interest

Built for Mr D S Honeyman, junior. The BUILDER describes the interior as "simple treated, the principal rooms being panelled with square-jointed panelling, the ornamental ceilings being executed in modelled plasterwork by Mr Sam Wilson, Edinburgh". Other contractors included Alex Fraser, mason, and John Smith, joiner (Kirkcaldy). The garden was laid out "under the direction of the architect", the plans show a kitchen court in front of the service wing, enclosed by a trellis fence and herbaceous border. The first Dean of Guild application made by D J Honeyman, for the erection of a villa in Bennochy Road, was April 1896; in 1919 R W Honeyman of Westdean applied to erect a "House and Motor Garage", and in 1921 a "Greenhouse". A further application, for a "Forcing House", was made by R Wemyss Honeyman in 1923.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806451

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)