Description

Mid 19th century with later alterations, now subdivided. 2-storey, with basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house. Painted ashlar; blank side elevations of squared and snecked rubble, with ashlar quoins. Base course, cornice and blocking course; stop-chamfered arrises.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled basket-arched door in projecting ashlar porch, at centre (rise of 3 steps), plate glass fanlight, basket-arched recess with floreate columns; volute keystone at centre; raised corner-pilasters, panelled at front; cornice and balustrade-parapet; round-arched windows on return elevations. Window with chamfered margin, at 1st floor. Window at basement level in bay to right; tripartite window at ground, with corbels and central tab above; window at 1st floor with corbelled balcony and fine cast-iron balustrade. Full-height canted window at bay to left, with piended roof; diminutive corbelled cill with intricate ironwork window guard.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mainly obscured by garden wall to rear; round-arched staircase window with engraved glass, at centre; tripartite at 1st, to right bay.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with square-rendered shouldered wallhead stacks, (NE: polished ashlar; SW: unpainted render).

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: stugged ashlar with polished copings and gatepiers. Tall rubble garden wall to rear with semicircular coping.

Statement of Interest

Date attribution above based on appearance of house. Wood's map shows something on the site in 1824 and it is possible that the house incorporates this earlier fabric. It also appears in Sutter's map of 1856.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631115

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)