Description

Probably 1874, minor alterations to rear circa 1980. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, piend-roofed Victorian villa with fine interior. Squared red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Raised base course and eaves cornice. Moulded doorpiece with cornice and blocking course; corniced and architraved windows; round-headed window. Stone mullions.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Narrow gabled bay to centre with steps up to panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight, single window above with moulded architrave and cast-iron anthemion finial to gablehead; flanking bays each with corniced canted window at ground and bipartite at 1st floor.

NE ELEVATION: dominant stack to centre gabled bay with window at ground and further window to each floor at right.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: lower wing projecting to centre and left, with small roundheaded 1st floor window and dominant shouldered gablehead stack to centre, modern rooflights on return to right; flat-roofed brick extension to outer left and lower piended projection with 2 large French windows at left. Single window to 1st floor of recessed face at right and horizontal rooflight to centre above.

SW ELEVATION: modern conservatory to right at ground and 2 windows to 1st floor with blank gabled centre bay.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Shouldered and coped squared rubble stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans; deeply overhanging eaves with some bargeboarding and decorative cast-iron cresting to gableheads of main house; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: fine decorative scheme in place including decorative plasterwork cornices, friezes and centre roses; architraved, panelled doors and panelled shutters. Hall with mosaic-tiled floor, alcove with moulded arch on scroll consoles and coloured leaded glazing to part-glazed screen door with deep plate glass fanlight; stairhall with timber-balustered dog-leg staircase, ball-finialled square-section newel posts and triangular cupola. Principal ground floor rooms with fine swagged detail to friezes, that to SW also with white marble fireplace and pilastered sideboard recess. Stone-flagged kitchen floor. Fine china handbasin on decorative cast-iron supports, with splashback (replacement tiles) surmounted by broken pedimented mirror.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls with inset decorative cast-iron railings and square-section, coped gatepiers. Semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779418

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)