Description

Arthur Nicholson, 1925, for himself. Distinctive style, combining Scots 17th century with Dutch/South African/colonial architecture. Asymmetrical white-harled villa, 1 and 2 storeys with attic; glazing mostly small-paned; red-tiled and flat roofs. Crow-stepped main range has 3-bay L-plan front, curly-gabled jamb left, dormer heads above main

eaves in remaining bays; doorway central is arched with moulded deep ingoes, decorative glazed inner door; plain stacks with red chimney cans. Low wings, that to left with bowed window. To rear, a loggia and a plain square 2-storey range which may not be original.

Many original interior fittings survive, including Baxi-type fires.

Garden and boundary walls also white-harled, ball-finialed gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

This style, uncommon in the Glasgow area, was sometimes used in the east by Leslie Graham Thomson, Reginald Fairlie and Robert Lorimer. Pair carved stone consoled in garden are from a large doorway of an unidentified house. Lily pond filled by roof drainage.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793708

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)