Description

1860. Mid Victorian asymmetrical Italianate villa: 2-storey
L-plan front with 4-storey tower in re-entrant angle,
rubble-built canted bay through both floors to right,
bipartite to left. Tower has round-arched doorpiece part
infilled as a window, decorative cast-iron balcony and
consoled window at first stage. Tripartite windows 2nd stage,
pairs of arched windows at splay-angled top stage, panelled
angles and balustraded parapet. Piended slated roof.
Decorative ashlar gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Part of Kings Park Conservation Area group. The area is

an outstanding early to late Victorian villa development with

remarkably few later additions.

Built for a Mr Honeyman Gillespie and formerly called Mineral

Villa. Now divided into flats.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56646939

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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)