Description

Style of Alexander Thomson, mid to later 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan villa with rear jamb. Squared honey-coloured sandstone, ashlar margins and dressings; base course; projecting eaves, exposed rafters; gable breaking eaves overt 1st floor windows, round-headed windows with defined Tuscan voussoirs, keystones; decorative cast-iron detailing at guttering. Roll-moulded arrises.

E ELEVATION: gabled bay at centre, steps, coped ashlar balustrade and corniced dies to door at centre, round-headed, cavetto-chamfered surround, plate glass fanlight, ashlar semicircular canopy on decorative consoles; tripartite half-glazed, etched vestibule door; round-headed window above. Flanking bowed windows on battered base courses, lead roofs; round-headed window above with gable breaking eaves.

N ELEVATION: broad gable, cellar door at ground to outer left, window at principal floor to outer left and right, that to right barred; round-headed window in gable outer left. Door, window in single storey jamb to outer right.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, lead flashings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

Statement of Interest

The neighbouring villa, Armadale, follows the same theme but owning to additio

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17774819

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)