Description

Later 19th century, post 1865. 2-storey, 3-bay, cottage villa; rectangular-plan block with jamb at rear. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar margins and dressings; chamfered reveals; rubble side and rear; rusticated quoins, door surround; base course.

SW ELEVATION: 3 bays symmetrically disposed; round-headed door at centre, rusticated surround; 4 panelled door, Y-tracery fanlight; gabled dormerhead above (replacement top-hopper window). Flanking symmetrical bays, canted windows with pierced balustrade, diminutive blank plaque at centre. Gable breaking eaves over 3-centred arched window, hoodmould, acorn labelstops.

NW ELEVATION: broad gable, window at centre at 1st floor, 2 windows to left of centre at ground, raised cills. Lower service block recessed to rear, small and large window at ground, window directly under eaves at 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: broad gable, window at ground and 1st floor at centre (rain water pipes running up gable).

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, wooden eaves boarding. Sandstone, coped apex stacks, octagonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS: ashlar gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises, pyramidal caps, 'Broompark? inscribed. Rubble quadrant walls with harl-pointing, ashlar saddleback coping, simple curved cast-iron railings. (Weathered fluted pilaster to outer left, probably part of Kirklea boundary wall).

Statement of Interest

The house is not shown on the 1st edition map. Pierced balustrade possibly originally with decorative cast-iron panels, as at Ardsloy, Armadale, Bloomfield.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770079

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)