Description

Circa 1884 with later alterations, and subdivision. 2-storey with 1st floor breaking eaves, 3-bay villa with Domestic Gothic details. Bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; stugged ashlar squared and snecked to side and rear elevations. Tall base course, chamfered arrises to window openings. Ashlar mullions and transoms.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled door to centre, brackets to lintel above; plate glass pointed-arch fanlight above; roll-moulded doorpiece. Roof swept down to act as porch with timber brackets and ashlar corbels; small dormer at 1st floor. Mullioned bowed 7-light window at ground to right, string course, concave and cornice; mullioned tripartite window at 1st floor above. Mullioned tripartite window at ground and bipartite 1st floor of bay to left. 1st floor windows in outer bays breaking eaves in gambrel-roofed dormerheads.

SE ELEVATION: later external steps to rear of elevation leading to panelled door at 1st floor, entrance to top floor flat.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1994; single storey addition to rear.

Originally timber casement windows to each mullioned window, now replaced with plastic windows at ground. Grey slate roof; bay to right piended, principal elevation; 1st floor windows of outer bays piended with gambrel louvred at apex. Terracotta toothed ridge tiles and ball finials to gambrels. Profiled cast-iron gutters at eaves; exposed raft ends. Rendered and coped stack to NW elevation; ashlar and coped stack to SE.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: bull-faced sandstone with droved ashlar coping.

Statement of Interest

The directories suggest that the house was owned by A W Turnbull of Benhar Coal Co. It might be supposed that these were the first occupants of the house and their residence commenced circa 1884.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805021

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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover