Description

Circa 1910; addition at E circa 1950; further large addition by Thoms and Wilkie 1973. Single storey, 2-storey and attic, irregular-plan Arts and Crafts villa. Harled, slate roof. Some transomed and mullioned windows with leaded panes at S and W, other multi-pane timber casements, flat-roofed dormers; deep sweeping eaves with plain bargeboards, ashlar-coped and moulded stacks with terracotta cans.

N ELEVATION: integral entrance porch off-centre flanked by windows, blank bay at right, 2 dormers in swept roof above; projecting stair gable at left with window; wide recessed bay at far left with door, back-stair window and various other windows, dormer and rooflights; later additions in sympathetic style at outer left.

W GABLE: 2-storey canted window at right with piended roof, large window at ground floor left, smaller window at 1st.

S ELEVATION: off-centre advanced gable with window at ground and 1st floor set in recessed round-headed panel, windows at ground and 1st floor right return and 1st floor left return; bay at right with window at 1st floor, 2 dormers; modern additions at far and outer right; further advanced single storey gable at left re-entrant (1986) with large segmental window and window at left return; 2 round-headed windows at far left, 3 windows at 1st floor, dormer.

INTERIOR: wide-boarded outer hall with cove ceiling, panelled inner hall with half-timbered ceiling leading to scale and platt staircase with barley-sugar balusters; fielded panelling in dining room, ashlar chimneypiece and metal hood.

LAMP STANDARD: wrought-iron Arts and Crafts-type lamp standard.

GATEPIERS: 2 rendered and lined gatepiers with bulbous ashlar caps, 'Belsize' inscribed at S gatepier.

Statement of Interest

The additions are in sympathy with the original building which has been used as offices by the North American Trust plc and First Scottish American Trust plc since the late 1950s.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630407

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)