Description

Dated 1887 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical, rectangular-plan house with advanced, finialled canted, corbelled and gabled bays flanking gabled central bay; piended-roofed addition at rear; built on ground rising to rear (NW). Stugged cream sandstone ashlar with grey sandstone dressings. Roll-moulded string course between floors to canted bays; roll-moulded surrounds to openings at ground; chamfered reveals and long and short margins to windows at 1st floor; stop chamfered angles at 1st floor to canted bays; recessed stepped panels to gableheads; heraldic motifs above to canted gables; long and short quoins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: roll-moulded doorway with long and short margin at ground din bay to centre; timber panelled door with letterbox fanlight; window t 1st floor above; date panel to gablehead. 3-light canted window at ground with single window at 1st floor in bays flanking.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey, 2-bay piended-roofed addition offset to left; window to main block to outer right. Continuous, long box dormer spanning entire pitch above.

SW AND NE (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank with multi-flue gablehead stacks above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows at ground; fixed timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights elsewhere. Purple slate roof; stone ridge; coped skews; ovolo-moulded skewputts; corniced ashlar gablehead stack; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEWAY AND GARDEN RAILINGS: rubble walls with rubble cope along SE boundary. Cement-rendered and lined, square-plan gatepiers with linking pediment; boarded gate. Cast-iron barleysugar railings with timber handrail on ridge cope linking gate with front door; Low wall flanking stone flight to door.

Statement of Interest

Commands a position above the town, facing the bay to the SE. Features to note include the unusual barleysugar railings lining the path to the main entrance and to the crisply detailed gables.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771942

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)