Description

Frederick Pilkington, 1875. 2-storey, square-plan gabled Gothic villa with idiosyncratic detailing. Squared and snecked sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; coursed, polished sandstone ashlar to canted bays and gables. Base course; cornices to canted bays; cavetto eaves course; skews; decorative skew-putts. Quoins; long and short stop-chamfered surrounds. Elaborate stiff-leaf capitals to mullions; corniced parapets with cusped trefoil blind arcading to advanced bays; recessed, carved sun-motif rosettes to gableheads.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Advanced, gabled bay at left, with projecting 2-storey, 3-light

canted bay; segmental-arched windows at ground, triangular-headed windows to 1st floor; elaborate wrought-iron finial to gable; advanced entrance bay to ground at left of 2-bay recessed section at right; segmental-arched opening, with nook-shafts and ornamental mouldings flanking panelled timber entrance door and fanlight; bipartite window to ground at outer right; single window to bays above, with gabled and finialled pediment breaking eaves.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Segmental-arched tripartite window to slightly advanced rectangular-plan bay at ground to right; segmental-arched bipartite window to bay to left at ground; bipartite window with triangular-headed lights to 1st floor of each bay, with gabled and finialled pediment breaking eaves.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Advanced, gabled bay to centre, with 2 small segmental-arched lights at ground and large, centred

Tudor arch above; planked door to ground of S return; plain gabled bay at right with gablehead stack; Tudor-arched window at ground and 1st floor of bay to left.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Double-gabled single storey addition at ground; triangular-headed window offset to right at 1st floor above; gablehead stacks to double gable; centred segmental-arched window with gabled pediment breaking eaves to E return; quatrefoil rosette to gable, inscribed 'AQ'.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; grey slate roof; corniced, lozenge-plan gablehead and ridge stacks with squat cans; painted cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped, squared and snecked rubble boundary walls to street.

Statement of Interest

Idiosyncratic Gothic villa, similar to Pilkington's earlier design for 129 Grange Loan. Distinctive trefoiled parapets and foliated capitals.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17794357

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)