Description

Dated 1873. 2-storey 3-bay gabled L-plan villa. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, stugged quoins. Stop-chamfered arrises; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

E ELEVATION: projecting gabled left bay with decorative bargeboards; 2-storey canted ashlar window with bracketed timber eaves, decorative slates and piend and platform roof with cast-iron brattishing. Right return with window breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead at 1st floor. Stone porch in re-entrant angle at ground (centre bay); shouldered window to E, shouldered doorway to N; 2-leaf diagonally boarded door with wrought-iron hinges and datestone 1873 above; piend and platform roof. Right bay with window at ground; 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads and decorative bargeboards.

N ELEVATION: broad gable with window at centre to each floor; plain bargeboards.

S ELEVATION: broad gable with windows displaced to right to each floor; timber bipartite window to left at ground; plain bargeboards. Single storey bay to far left with back door.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass and 4-pane. Grey slates; coped stone apex stacks with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

Compare with Borrowlea and Ravenscraig (see separate listings).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645050

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)