Description

Late 19th century. Symmetrical pair of 2-storey, 3-bay semi-detached villas with central pend. Stugged coursed and squared sandstone rubble with concrete dressings and concrete rustic-style decoration to canted windows to N elevation. Fanlit and panelled door to pend and principal entrances, latter with deep-set vestibule doors with etched glazing.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay villa to left of pend with door to centre; window at ground and 1st floor to right. Full-height canted window to left with small branch-like studs speckled over window surrounds and panel of vertical, horizontal and lattice pattern narrow tree trunk decoration, piended roof. Villa to right mirror image.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: access to upper villas from rear.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews, sandstone stacks with original cans to gables, flat-roofed dormer to villa to right.

BOUNDARY WALL AND END PIERS: bull-faced coursed and squared sandstone wall and end piers, ashlar coped wall and pyramidal pier caps.

Statement of Interest

Real tree trunks were apparently used as moulds for the applied decoration.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56643698

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014