Description

Style of Walter Newall. Barge-boarded picturesque
asymmetrical villa, now converted for use as Arts Centre.
2 storeys. Stugged red coursers with polished dressings
and margins, windows with deep cavetto cornices and
mostly aproned at ground. S elevation: 2 asymmetrically
gabled outer bays (canted window right and attic light),
narrow recessed entrance bay between, 4-panelled door
with fanlight and sidelights, bracketted balcony over
now glazed to eaves level. 2-bay W elevation with advanced
gable left. Windows (some blind) sashes, mostly plate
glass or with 12-pane glazing pattern. Projecting eaves;
elaborately carved barge-boards; corniced squat stacks;
slate roof with rooflights.
Interior: much altered during conversion to Art Gallery;
2 ground floor rooms nearest main road have good cornice
and ceiling plasterwork; cantilevered stone stair with
cast-iron balusters.
Rubble-built ashlar-coped boundary wall at W, altered
square gatepiers now capped with stone eagles.

Statement of Interest

Compares with Beattock Inn and with Walter Newall's design

entitled "Glassmount House" (see NMRS).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793798

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings