Description

Circa 1870. Jacobean style assymmetrical 2-storey and
attic villa added to a simple late 18th/early 19th century
small 2-storey, 3-bay house. Stugged and snecked ashlar with
polished dressings. Entrance porch single-storey in re-entrant
angle with earlier house, 4-centred moulded arch with
carved spandrels, corbelled and raised parapet. 2 bays to
left, 1 gabled, outer with square projecting ground floor
3-light window with entwined initials on an escutcheon
in parapet. Garden front (SW) 3 uneven bays, outer gabled
that to right with full-height canted bay corbelled to
square at attic. Windows mainly 2 or 3-light with plate
glass sashes. Strapwork creating 1st floor NE entrance
front window. Gables with kneelers and finials. Slate roof;
grouped ridge stacks now reduced in height.
Earlier house given gablets to front circa 1870, rear
stair window with margin glazing (stone stair with iron
balustrade survives).
Interior: Entrance lobby leads to stair hall through
elaborately detailed door with handsome, large engraved
glass panel. Staircase with banded colonette balusters
supporting gothic arcading, 3-arched decorated gothic
screen on landing, deep floral cornice. Excellent woodwork
to be seen in linen-fold shutters and doors; colonettes
to main doorcases to hall and landing, drawing room etc.
Deep plaster cornices to main rooms. Billiard room
in attic.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796018

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)