Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey with basement, 3-bay house with classical details, set on sloping site (2-storey with attic at rear); flatted. Front elevation comprising whitewashed, coursed sandstone rubble at 1st floor; painted margins; coursed sandstone rubble at basement. Raised band course at principal floor; lintel course beneath moulded cornice; projecting cills; pilastered entrance. Rear elevation comprising whitewashed harl; full-height yellow sandstone ashlar canted bay to outer left; painted margins to remaining openings; yellow ashlar doorpiece.

SW (HIGH ROAD) ELEVATION, ENTRANCE NO 24: replacement timber door centred at ground; original geometric-patterned fanlight; surrounding doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, plain frieze, moulded cornice, block pediment. Single windows in bays to outer left and right. Single windows at basement.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION, ENTRANCE NO 22: corniced and pilastered doorpiece centred at ground (door missing); single window aligned at 1st floor. Single windows at both floors in bay to outer right; 3-light canted windows at both floors in bay to outer left. Single box dormers off-set to left and right of centre.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case glazing; some lying-pane glazing at rear; some boarded openings. Graded grey slate piended roof; replacement rainwater goods. Corniced, droved red sandstone wallhead stack to SE, red brick apex stack to NW; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: low coped sandstone wall to front enclosing basement area; surmounting cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials; low coped rubble wall enclosing site to High Road.

Statement of Interest

Empty/derelict 1996. This property has retained the majority of its original features - the timber sash and case windows (some lying-panes), multi-paned fanlight, pilastered door-surrounds, corniced stack and fleur-de-lys railings. Originally known as Point House, this formed part of the Point House estate with the adjoining Point House Cottage (not listed) and the nearby coach-house, Pointhouse Lane (see separate list entry).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17773194

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014