Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey and attic asymmetrical house with classical details, extended by 2 advanced bays in later 19th century making near L-plan villa. Cement-rendered and lined walls with droved ashlar dressings to George Walk, stugged ashlar walls with polished ashlar dressings to later building work, all painted. Random rubble W gable and rear elevation with projecting rendered wing. Base course, cill course at 1st floor of later work, band course at eaves. Windows of later work corniced with shouldered architraves and bracketted cills, margins at corners.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay, including narrow entrance bay recessed to right, exposing end bay of older building. Entrance door in re-entrant angle fronted by porch with full entablature and blocking course, column at corner and corresponding pilasters, 6-panel 2-leaf timber entrance doors with etched glass upper panel to inner door. Stone entrance platt. Shouldered architrave to round-arched window above. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor bays to outer left.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay, including blank recessed bay with entrance porch to left. Evenly fenestrated bays to right.

W ELEVATION: gable end with 2 fireplace openings at each floor, narrow window with margin at 1st floor, centring gable.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay, advanced at centre, fronted by piend-roofed 2-storey wing.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to S elevation, 4-pane to E elevation except 6-pane at ground floor left window. 6-pane timber sash and case window to rear elevation. Border-glazed fixed lights to rear wing. Grey slate roof, piended to S and E with platform, slate-hung timber dormer to E pitch with bipartite plate glass window. 6 and 2-pane rooflights to rear pitch. Brattishing to main ridges and porch. Ornate profiled cast-iron gutters to principal fronts. Stugged ashlar stacks, panelled and corniced with mainly octagonal cans. 2-flue wallhead stacks to E front entrance bay and centring rear elevation bay to outer left. 10-flue apex stack to W gable.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble boundary wall with ashlar cope to High Street, surmounted by cast-iron railing with finials. Cast-iron gate and piers, railing and cope removed to right. E boundary wall stepped with ashlar cope, W wall, range of single-storey lean-to outhouses with grey slate roofs and brick chimneys.

Statement of Interest

One of the larger houses on Dalintober High Street. This is an interesting building in a prominent position in this part of town.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56648031

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy