Description

Late 19th century. 2-storey villa, with 3-storey square tower
to south, and low single storey wing with basement beyond.
Coursed and stugged red ashlar with polished dressings.
Tower: bipartite to 3 sides of upper stage, round-headed
of house with round-arched doorway; canted ground floor
window alongside. Plain, 3-bay west elevation with advanced
left bay; east elevation has wide segmental-arched ground
floor window and keystoned and round-arched central stair
window with cill breaking continuous band between floors.
Eaves course, bracketted eaves, wall-head stacks and slate
roof; tower similarly treated. Interior: leaded glass stair
window with representation of Battle of Largs: decorative
cast-iron stair balusters; low, depressed-arched screen with
short square Corinthian column and pilasters between
half-landing and ground floor room to north east: some wooden
panelling and decorative plasterwork.
Red ashlar gatepiers to east and to west; former are square,
latter are octagonal with shaped caps, decorative wooden
gate with stytised wooden columns.

Statement of Interest

Formerly Alipore.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830774

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House