Description

David MacKenzie, circa 1840. 2-storey 3 by 3-bay detached villa, painted ashlar with margined windows, recessed at ground floor. Later rubble-built extension to Laurel Bank. Prominent gusset site.

W elevation 3-bay, central porch with entablature on columns with block capitals. 3-window bow to right. Main cornice. Later 2-storey and attic with steep mansard and platformed roof set back to left by Laurel Bank. S elevation symmetrical 3-bay with centre pedimented doorpiece. Main cornice.

Piended slate roofs with later dormers, 2 canted. Tall coped stacks. Windows sash and case 12-pane glazing pattern to original part, curved sashed at bow. 4-pane pattern to addition.

Low curved ruble-built boundary walls with square ashlar gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Early metal and glass Laurel Bank street sign at left of W elevation. RSSPCC Laurel Bank Family Centre.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808406

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)