Description

Attributed to Keppie and Henderson, circa 1912. Single storey with raised basement, American style Arts and Crafts, Elizabethan house with 2-storey corner pavilion. White painted harl; flush timber windows, mullions and transepts; Rosemary tile-hanging in gableheads and to 1st floor of pavilion.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: U-plan entrance court to right framed by taller gabled bay projecting to left with large canted Hall window and cross window on return, and by advanced, piend-roofed wing to right. Gabled, mock-timber-framed and part-glazed porch recessed at centre (cusped windows), abutting single storey link passage spanning between wings with narrow windows under eaves. 2-storey corner pavilion to outer left with tripartite window to ground and narrower window under

eaves to 1st floor above.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3 near-identical gabled windows projecting to left of centre with tall blind basement areas (2 to left 5-light, that to centre 6-light with timber forestair leading from door inserted in outer right light). 3 bays to right of centre with tall canted, piend-roofed 8-light window flanked by flush tripartite windows.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay. Bay to outer left and bay to right of centre with tall canted, gabled 4-light windows, flanking bipartite basement window

and 2-leaf door and flush bipartite windows at principal floor.

E ELEVATION: 2-storey pavilion to outer right with garage to basement and harled stone forestair to right leading up to later projecting porch with catslide roof; 2 cross windows to principal floor and narrow tripartite window under eaves in tile-hung 1st floor. Door to basement

with window above at centre, flanked to left by basement window and tall window to principal floor, 5-light canted, gabled window to outer left. Square leaded panes to casement and fixed windows. Red Rosemary tile bell-cast roof: overhanging eaves with timber brackets; studded barge boards to gableheads. Harled stacks, sandstone coped; terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: only part seen. Wainscot panelled room running N-S at centre

with Tudor-arched ashlar chimneypiece with heraldic beasts in panels above (paint or inlay?), and timber-beamed, coombed roof, lit to N by segmental-arched clerestory window (behind porch).

TERRACE WALLS: stepped, 3-tier walls to garden at S, squared and snecked rubble, continued round on rising ground to W.

Statement of Interest

The horizontal emphasis and streamlined form of the design suggest an American influence.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793933

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey