Description

Probably George Beattie, dated 1862 for Walter Thorburn, merchant. Large 2-storey on raised basement 3-bay square gabled villa. Stugged and coursed cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Raised margins and chamfered arrises; quoin strips. Base course; moulded string course above ground; moulded eaves.

S (entrance) elevation: centre bay with projecting gabled stone outer hall at ground; large window with hoodmould stepping over crest and date panel; boarded door on E return; window at 1st floor hard up against eaves. Gabled right bay with open gabled timber porch adjoining entrance; elaborate bracing and square columns; approached by flight of stone steps with timber balustrades; window to outer right; window displaced to left at 1st floor. Left bay with windows to basement and ground; 1st floor window breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead; thistle finial.

E elevation: 3-bay. Left bays with basement window and bipartite window at ground; 2 windows at 1st floor breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads (that to right blind behind glazing); rose and cloverleaf finials. Right bay with full-height canted window, bipartite to front; tapering swept pavilion roof with ball finial and weathervane; fish-scale tiles.

N elevation: irregular 3-bay; left bay gabled with windows displaced to right; windows to each bay of all floors. Decorative canted dormer to right with roof as above.

W elevation: M-gabled and harled; round-headed stair window at centre with glazing to suit; apex stacks. Obscured at ground by dry-dased modern flat-roofed extension.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass and 8-pane. Grey slates; coped ashlar stacks; octagonal cans; ashlar-coped skews; scroll-bracketed skewputts.

Interior: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

See lodge in Springfield Terrace (separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645131

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