Description

Circa 1900. 2-storey and attic, square plan asymmetrical
villa with advanced bays and modern extension at rear.
Harled. Red sandstone base course and quoins. Applied
timber framing at 1st floor to front and sides.
W (ROAD) ELEVATION: advanced bay to left with 4-light
canted window at ground bearing jettied gable above.
Single windows to centre and outer right bay with swept
dormerheads to 1st floor windows.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: glazing pentice-roofed porch, at
centre with doorways on W in applied round arched timber
frame. Advanced gabled bay at left with 3-light window
at 1st floor. Swept dormer head to outer right, as
above.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular openings with modern
addition at right to ground floor.
S ELEVATION: similar to W elevation.
Small-pane glazing to casements at 1st floor and modern
plate glass sashes at ground. Red tile roof with piend
given diminutive gable at summit to W; swept eaves with
timber brackets and barge boarded gables. Flat-roofed
3-light dormers, with pediments to centre lights set high
in roof.
Harled stacks; diminishing and with sandstone coping.
INTERIOR: simple timber classical chimneypieces and
panelled doors.
Harled retaining wall with ashlar coping and gatepiers and
simple iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Architects almost certainly Peddie and Washington Browne.

Further example of vogue for English Tudor villas circa 1900.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17798902

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets