Description

Later 19th century, post 1865. 2-storey and raised basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled villa with rear jamb. Whinstone and sandstone rubble with polished sandstone margins and dressings; base course.

SW (MAIN) ELEVATION: broad pilastered and corniced door at centre; half-glazed door with plate glass fanlight, narrow round-headed window above. Tall gable to outer right, full-height canted window, half-piended roof, dividing cornice. Slightly advanced, corniced tripartite window at ground left, roll-moulded arrises, gable breaking eaves above, round-headed window at 1st floor, blank plaque above.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: main block with lower jamb off-set to left, unsympathetic additions.

Plate glass timber sash and case on main elevation; 12-lying pane windows at rear; stair window with border glazing. Grey slate roof, lead flashings; squat, corniced ridge stacks, circular cans. Square downpipe, decorative rainwater hopper and other fixtures retained.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BALUSTRADE: simple cast-iron balustrade terminated by ashlar die with plaque motif and segmental cap to S of main front above lawn, stone steps to lawn to right and left, rendered garden storage area below.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES: whinstone rubble wall with harl-pointing, quartz boulder coping, curved toward gate. Vermiculated piers, stop-chamfered arrises, pyramidal caps, "Greenhill House" carved in pier to left.

GATES: light early 20th century Glasgow-style cast-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

The house is not shown on the 1st edition map. Greenhill is now divided into flats.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770101

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)