Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay, symmetrical double villa with idiosyncratic details; single storey wings with attics adjoining house to sides and extending to rear. Red sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings to principal elevation; squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course; cill course between canted bays to 1st floor windows; carved circular panels with engaged sphere motif to centre of cill course and to canted bays; deep cornice. Modern garage adjoining No 13 not included in listing.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors (2-leaf door to No 11); round-arched, plate glass fanlights; segmental-arched bracketed hoodmoulds, pilasters and decoratively carved keystones to doorpieces; single windows above; architraves slightly arched. Full-height, 3-light, canted windows to outer bays.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single storey wings with attics to E bays and protruding to rear of house.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof (slate roofs to attics of single storey wings); rendered, coped wallhead stack to N; canted, pedimented dormers flanking coped, central ridge stack.

Statement of Interest

Similar to contemporary houses at 7 and 9 Marchhall Crescent (see separate list entries).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56648094

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)