Description

Post 1865. 2-storey, 2-bay, gabled, rectangular-plan villa with Italianate details. Whinstone and sandstone rubble (giving polychromatic effect) with sandstone ashlar margins and dressings; rough-harled and painted on entrance and rear elevations. Base course; quoin strips; advanced wooden eaves; string course; roll-moulded reveals.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad gable advanced to outer left; round-headed canopy porch on slender colonnettes with bargeboarded gable over; roll-moulding around round-headed door, 2-leaf panelled; window immediately to left. 2 windows at upper floor, asymetrically disposed to outer left and right of centre. Tall, stair window at centre of right return, small windows to outer right and left; single storey rubble scullery block recessed to right.

S ELEVATION: 2-storey over raised basement. Broad, depressed gable slightly advanced to outer right; canted window from basement to principal floor, stugged sandstone for basement; bipartite round-arched windows, centre colonnette, ashlar voussoirs. Window at ground to left, semicircular-headed window with barrel canopy breaking eaves at 1st floor.

4-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; lead flashings; coped sandstone ridge stack with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: decorative cast-iron balusters; stair window with painted border glass; elaboarate floral plasterwork in drawing room.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES: whinstone boundary walls, reconstructed with sea boulders set in cement for coping. Slender cast-iron gateposts, arrowhead railings.

Statement of Interest

The house is not shown on the 1st edition map.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770022

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy