Description

Style of David Cousin, circa 1860. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical now subdivided villa, stables and outhouses to E, basement to rear. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar front with polished dressings, squared and snecked rubble to rear and sides with stugged dressings. Base course; architraved windows with bracketted cills and cornices; banded eaves course.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: entrance door at centre with disc motif to pilasters and consoled cornice, panlled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey with raised basement; 4-bay; single windows; single storey with raised basement flat-roofed extension to right with single windows and secondary door.

W ELEVATION: 2-storey lean-to timber conservatory to basement to right; single central window at 1st floor; 2 wallhead stacks.

E ELEVATION: modern forestair to secondary door inserted in former tall round-arched stair window; 2 blocked up windows to right; 2 wallhead stacks.

STABLES AND OUTHOUSE: 2-storey, forming courtyard to E; square-plan with piend roofs, squared and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar front to N elevation (converted to housing 1926).

Timber sash and case windows, mostly 2-pane upper sashes and 4-pane lower sashes, some 12-pane windows to rear. Slate piend roof, lead flashings; 4 wallhead stacks (see above), octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to rear and sides, tall wall with flat coping to front, square coped gatepiers (mostly shortened and moved).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808018

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey