Description

J Craig Barr and Cook, 1910, altered to rear late 20th century. 2-storey, 4-bay gabled villa with semicircular bellcast-roofed porch. Whitewashed harl. Harled transoms and mullions.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bays to centre with low eaves broken by roof of porch with deep-set 2-leaf timber door, bipartite immediately to left with flat-roofed corniced dormer above, narrow gabled bay piercing low eaves to outer right

with 2 closely-aligned bipartites at ground and square bipartite in gablehead. Broad advanced gable to left with flat-roofed semicircular 8-light transomed window at ground and 4 closely-aligned small windows above.

W ELEVATION: blank elevation with projecting centre chimney breast breaking eaves into gablehead stack.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: variety of elements to altered elevation including 4-light transomed stair window to centre with asymmetrically-fenestrated flanking gables, single storey piended bay to left and flat-roofed garden room extension to right at ground.

Small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case and casement windows. Grey slates. Shouldered harled stacks with cans. Overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding.

ARCH AND GATEPIERS: ashlar-coped harled wall with broad depressed arch. Square-section gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

The first proprietor of Lismore, in 1911, was Andrew A Gardner. James Craig Barr was apprenticed to T G Abercrombie at the Glasgow School of Art during 1898-9. He also designed nearby 'Foxburn' at 17 South Avenue and 'Garail' at 24 Thornly Park Avenue.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776040

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)