Description

Edward Tough (Hutton and Tough), 1909. Symmetrical 2-storey semi-detached villas. Harled brick and expanded metal lath with timber turrets and verandahs on rock-faced rubble-built base.

Inner gabled bays triple light. Octagonal angle towers, 5 timber mullioned lights. Swept roofs with art nouveau finials. Linking 3-bay verandahs with recessed doors at ground floor.

Side elevations: large stair windows, some with painted glass. Projecting 5-light mullioned and transomed bays set back to rear.

Slate roofs with tiled ridges/ Ridge stacks. Windows originally had single-pane lower cases, 4 and 6-pane upper cases. Unusual glazing pattern to stair windows.

Rubble-built retaining walls with original mild steel railings and gates.

Statement of Interest

An unusual development of American-looking houses, each pair being slightly different in its treatment of the verandah.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630076

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Oxfordshire (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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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)