Description

James MacLaren and George Shaw Aitken, 1877. 2-storey and basement, rectangular-plan villa. Snecked and random sandstone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings, grey slate roof. Base course, continuous hoodmoulds at 1st floor S and W elevation, wallhead course; plate glass sash and case windows, chamfered mannered architraves and moulded lintels at ground floor, elliptical-arched at 1st; cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative hoppers, stacks with plinths, corniced copes and decorative cans; conservatory at E.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay, asymmetrical. Entrance porch at 2nd bay from left with angle piers and pilasters, ribbed semi-ogival leaded roof with cast-iron brattishing, moulded elliptical-arch doorway with 2-leaf panelled doors wheel-glazing pattern at top, blank heraldic panel at 1st floor; bay at left with window at ground floor, bipartite at 1st; paired windows at ground and 1st floor right; single window at ground and 1st floor far right.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical. Tripartite windows at centre, paired at 1st floor each wth cast-iron balconies on corbelled cills; 2-storey canted window at left with facetted roof and finial; tripartite projecting window at right with parapet, tripartite at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: considerably altered by addition of external stair, porch and windows.

INTERIOR: original plasterwork in hall and principal rooms; canopied marble chimneypiece in hall; well stair with turned softwood balusters and stained glass ceiling light.

CONSERVATORY: waggon-roof conservatory projecting at E with raised gabled ventilator ridge, finial and brattishing.

WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-coped rubble wall at W; 3 off-set chamfered ashlar gatepiers with mannered caps and wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Ineravon was formerly named Ethelstone and was the home of Douglas C Thomson, the newpaper publisher. The house was sub-divided, probably in the 1960s, but was restored to one house in the 1980s; the staircase was re-instated by Ian Carr of Knapp, Inchture and the hall ceiling light by Arcadia Glass, Stonehaven. Thomson was a pioneer motorist and there is an altered 1905 brick motor house at the rear of the house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630417

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