Description

Matthew Steele, 1937. 2-storey, 4-bay L-plan Arts and Crafts style house with piended single storey wing to outer left; full-height conical-capped stair tower at centre. Squared and snecked yellow rubble sandstone with polished dressings; ribbon pointing; synthetic sandstone surrounds to openings (roll-moulded); projecting cills. Detached squared and snecked yellow sandstone garage to NW; later sandstone and boarded timber garage beyond to N (1984).

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door in advanced single storey bay off-set to right of centre; architraved, shouldered surround comprising plain frieze, projecting cornice; single window aligned above. Tripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor. Large 1st floor stair window in engaged circular tower in bay to left of entry; single window off-set to left below. Small single window at ground in bay to left of tower; single window off-set to left at 1st floor. Single window centred in projecting N wing to outer left.

Modern timber glazing throughout. Piended grey slate roof; stone ridging. Squared and snecked sandstone coped wallhead stacks to E and W; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched coping to random rubble sandstone wall to Gamekeeper?s Road. Square-cut coursed rubble sandstone piers flank entry; projecting cornices; pyramidal caps; replacement timber gates.

Statement of Interest

Built for Thomas Jackson Esq of Pentland Avenue, Colinton. Despite its modern glazing, Winton Hall retains a number of features of architectural interest - note the Arts and Crafts detailing, a-symmetrical massing, polished and roll-moulded dressings, conical capped stair tower and grey slate roof. No 10 Gamekeeper?s Road, also by Matthew Steele of Union Street, Bo?ness, is listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771583

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