Description

Hippolyte J Blanc, 1876 with modern alterations. 2 storey and basement, 3 bay asymmetrical Gothic style house with single storey wing adjoining to E. Squared and snecked cream rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course; decorative bargeboards; deeply overhanging eaves.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central pointed arched doorway; panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single round arched window to 1st floor above; single window to ground floor outer left set in pointed arched panel with quatrefoil motif; single window to 1st floor above with pediment breaking eaves. Advanced, gabled bay to outer right; trefoil headed tripartite window at ground; shouldered arched tripartite window to 1st floor above; carved quatrefoil roundel and pointed arch to gablehead. Single storey wing adjoining house to E with shouldered arched bipartite window.

S ELEVATION: modern extension to basement supporting balcony to ground floor above; 3 light canted window to ground floor outer left; bipartite window to 1st floor above; tripartite windows to both floors in bay to outer right.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; tall wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIER AND PEDESTRIAN GATE: low coped boundary wall to street; high rubble mutual wall to E terminating in panelled gatepier. Pedestrian gate adjoining house to E.

Statement of Interest

The house, now used for a variety of church purposes, is linked to the Church itself by a basement passage.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810240

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)