Description

Howebank is small cottage-style villa which forms part of an 1890s group of 6 villas and 3 terraced cottages, all of which share similar characteristics and were probably built as a speculative development.

Howebank is the least-altered example of this small late 19th century development, and makes a positive contribution to the character of Loch Goil.

DESCRIPTION

Howebank is a rectangular-plan single storey and attic house with a single storey piend-roofed kitchen outshot to the rear. The 3-bay front (E) elevation has central 2-leaf storm doors with a two-light fanlight; the left bay has a rectangular bay window with piended lead roof and narrow timber fretwork trim; the top panes are glazed with coloured quarries. The 2 attic windows are set in distinctive large timber-boarded gables. The sandstone long and short quoins and margins to the front elevation are raised, which would normally suggest an intention to harl; however, the front elevation is not random rubble but built to courses, suggesting that it was intended to be seen, and that the raised quoins are a decorative detail.

To the rear, lighting the stairs is a central dormer-headed window breaking eaves, with coloured margin glazing and acid etched centre panes. The kitchen outshot has a modern window.

INTERIOR

The interior has decorative plasterwork to the ground floor rooms and turned timber stair balusters and newel.

MATERIALS

Rubble built to courses to front; random rubble to N and rear elevations; harled S elevation; raised long and short sandstone quoins; smooth sandstone margins to front, droved sandstone margins to sides and rear. Timber windows, mostly 8-pane sash and case. Pitched roof with overhanging sparred eaves; graded slates; painted coped ashlar gable-head stacks with circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES

To west, rendered boundary wall surmounted by Art Nouveau cast-iron railings; painted square plan gatepiers; strapwork style cast iron pedestrian gate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77778419

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)