Description

Probably J H Cooper, pre 1906. Voyseyesque single storey and attic, rectangular plan house with polygonal tower. Harled with red tile roof. 2 gabled blocks interlinked at right angles, that to N with eaves sweeping low and overhanging. W elevation with tripartite doorway to right of centre, flanked to left by canted window and with small window to right, all grouped under eaves of S gabled block, and intercepting N block at left; tripartite in gablehead to left, and further small window at ground to outer left. S elevation with loggia formed at centre between rectangular projecting to right and 2-stage polygonal tower to left, with timber balustrade to balcony above, and to tower. Columns flanking loggia, with entasis and set upon harled parapet which continues as battered base course about tower and to right. Door under loggia to tower, and to balcony above at right. Windows to 3 faces of tower at ground, and with blank faces between those in upper stage; nursery rhyme weathervane. 2 buttresses to low N

elevation, dividing small windows to centre and left.

Statement of Interest

Sharon provided the most interesting design in the Village, followed by the School and the Hall, and the inspiration for certain details could be James MacLaren or Sydney Mitchell rather than Voysey. Sharon may have been the mother house of the Village, as the ground before it was chosen as the site of Stirling Boyd's memorial sundial, see below.

Part of the former Humbie Children's Village built in 1906 in Arts and Crafts style. The village was built to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities and was made up of separate cottages with a hall and school. It became a residential care facility in the later 20th century before closing in the 1990s and being redeveloped into private housing in 2008.

List description updated 2009.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808417

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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