Description

1903; sunroom late 1940s. Single and 2-storey, 2-bay, L-plan Arts & Crafts style house with mock half-timbered gableheads and deep jerkinhead roof. Bull-faced red sandstone rubble with bull-faced quoins. Stone mullions.

SE (PRINCIPAL) (WEST GEORGE STREET) ELEVATION: broad advanced finialled gable to right of centre with tripartite window at ground and bipartite above; set-back bay to left with almost full-width slated canopy on deep timber braces over panelled timber door with multi-paned toplight over moulded apron in re-entrant angle to right and 2 small windows to left, 2 further windows centrally-positioned at 1st floor under swept roof.

NE (NEWTON STREET) ELEVATION: broad gabled bay to right with single window to each floor at left, bipartite window to ground right and further single window above; narrow blank bay to outer left.

SW ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with later piend-roofed sunroom with door on return to right, bipartite window in bay to left and small window to right, stair window to centre above and further single window to left under jerkinhead roof.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation with variety of elements including single storey piended wing to right and window in steeply-pitched gablehead at centre.

Multi-pane top lights of dimpled coloured glass over plate glass and vertical 2-pane glazing patterns in timber casement windows, including sunroom; coloured leaded glazing incorporating fine bird panels to stair window. Grey slates. Coped rock-faced square ridge stack with full-complement of cans mostly decorative, and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place including moulded plasterwork cornices, picture rails, panelled doors with brass door furniture, panelled soffits and reveals. Tiled hall floor and screen door with coloured glass. Stairhall with timber-balustered dog-leg staircase, acorn-finialled newel posts and brass stair rods; finely-detailed stair window. Drawing room with original fire surround with carved frieze, broken-pedimented overmantel incorporating oval mirror with narrow flanking mirrors and replacement grate. Dining room with timber fire surround, inset cast-iron grate and tiled cheeks. Boarded dado to kitchen.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls, some low with inset decorative cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate.

Statement of Interest

Adylinn (not so-named in Valuation Rolls until mid 1920s) was built for the Adamson family, thought to be proprietors of a jam factory (since demolished) situated between High Street and Ericht Lane. However, the Valuation Roll entry records the proprietor as Margaret Adamson, wife of David Adamson ironmonger. The house remained in the Adamsons ownership until 1973. The stair window was re-leaded circa 1990 by Christian Shaw of Edinburgh.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779478

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