Description

Attributed to James MacLaren, circa 1867. 2-storey, rectangular-plan with lower service projections at rear, Italianate villa. Tooled and snecked rubble sandstone with painted dressings, grey slate roof. Base course, cill course at 1st floor S and E elevations; rusticated quoins at main elevation, painted tooled and margined quoins elsewhere and at some windows and stacks; plate glass and 4-pane sash and case windows; canted windows have chamfered reveals; moulded cornice and decorative cast-iron parapet; gables at S elevation have open pediment treatment with moduled eaves and palmette finials; corniced wallhead stacks with uniform cans, voluted shulders at E and W; cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative hoppers, piended and gabled roofs.

E ELEVATION: door with round-headed fanlight at left return of off-centre porch, later red-tiled canopy; border-glazed round-headed window, moulded cornice, decorative cast-iron parapet with angle dies; window at right, 3 windows at 1st floor; single storey block at right with 2 doors, window and coped skew.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical; tripartite window in corniced raised panel at ground floor centre, window at 1st floor with corbel treatment; slightly advanced bays at left and right with canted window at ground floro, round-headed tripartite with raised margins at 1st floor, patera motif at gable.

W ELEVATION: door with large fanlight formed from window at centre, window at left and right, 3 windows at 1st floor; lower block at left with 2 windows and gable dormerhead, coped skew.

N ELEVATION: border-glazed round-headed stair window at centre, various other windows, projections at left and right.

INTERIOR: some original chimneypieces; decorative cornices and ceiling roses; well stair with turned balusters, newel posts with lion's head design; oak panelled room at ground floor.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: round coped rubble wall at S. 3 pyramidal-capped painted gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Bryans is sub-divided into 2 units. There is a decorative keel-shaped late 19th century greenhouse in the garden.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17813867

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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