Description

Mills and Shepherd, 1907-9. Long asymmetrical, villa,

stepped-plan, 2-storey, attic and basement, rock-faced

rubble with ashlar dressings.

S elevation: all windows mullioned and transomed with

linking cill courses; 2-storey canted bay to left; 2nd left

bay gabled with slightly canted ground floor window; 3rd bay semi-circular arched garden entrance, deeply inset door with

altered glazing, tripartite over; 4th bay, 3-storey 5-light

mullioned and transomed bow; 5th bay set back, irregular

fenestration and gable, re-entrant angle turret with pyramidal

roof, corbelled out from 1st floor. 2 later small-paned dormers. 2-storey piend-roofed service wing set well back. Buttressed

garden wall with square balustrade and dog-legged stair

to left of bow.

N elevation: square projecting pyramidal-roofed tower to

W with large mullioned and transomed leaded glass stair

window and off-centre entrance beneath armorial. Ornate

wrought-iron grille to porch, window blocked by later

outside stair. Set back bay to right, blind except

quarter-circular turret in re-entrant. Service wing advanced

to left, gabled with off-centre stack and modern projection.

Ashlar stacks, piended and gabled swept slate roofs, lead

caps to turrets, ornate finials removed. Sash and case

windows, 4-pane upper cases and, to S elevation, single-pane

lower cases.

BOUNDARY WALL to Perth Road, semi-cylindrical, conical-capped

gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

For Harry Walker, manufacturer, Caldrum Works. Subdivided.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811973

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